hubbleshow

English

Noun

hubbleshow (countable and uncountable, plural hubbleshows)

1. A noisy confusion; hubbub.
   • 1824, Susan Edomonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance:

     I was really wearying to get to my own house for a little, if it was only to refresh myself with a drop plain barley-broth, and a bit boiled mutton ; and what a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubbleshows of people one sits down with now, where there's no carrying on any thing like rational conversation.

   • 1849, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 276:

     Why, it is not in the power of any Christian man to tell ye what happened — Such a hubbleshow, such a racketing, such fighting, such knocking down, such a rushing and riving.

   • 1863, John Close, Titus Stubbs, Tales and Legends of Westmoreland:

     All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.

   • 1894, Susan Ferrier, Destiny, page 134:

     O, if that silly man would but stop till all this hubbleshow's past!