Brouhaha is actually another word we use in English that is borrowed from the French (I googled this and apparently these are called ''loanwords'', I think they could have come up with a snappier word for this... considering how beautiful and special I find loanwords).
Brouhaha is a masucline noun that means:
bruit confus venant d'une foule.
It has (French) synonyms too, notably tintamarre and tohubohu, which I find also have the same onomatopoeic quality of the word brouhaha.
My google search also turned up a website with a list of words used in English that are borrowed from French. I didn't click on it though, I thought it would be too much of a spoiler, taking the joy out of the slow discovery...
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