hubbub
See also: hub-bub
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Mid 16th c. Perhaps from Irish; compare Irish ababú!, abú! (battle-cry), Scottish Gaelic ub! ub! (expressing contempt, etc.), ubh ubh! (expressing disgust).
Pronunciation
Noun
hubbub (plural hubbubs)
- A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.
Translations
a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket
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Verb
hubbub (third-person singular simple present hubbubs, present participle hubbubing or hubbubbing, simple past and past participle hubbubed or hubbubbed)
- (intransitive) To cause a tumult or racket.
- 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football
- It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.
- 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football