hubbub

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌbʌb/

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Mid 16th c. Perhaps from Irish; compare Irish ababú!, abú! (battle-cry), Scottish Gaelic ub! ub! (expressing contempt, etc.), ubh ubh! (expressing disgust).

• whobub (obsolete)

hubbub (countable and uncountable, plural hubbubs)

1. A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →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.

   • 1943 October 30, Falling Hare, spoken by Bugs Bunny:

     What's all the hubbub, bub?

hubbub (third-person singular simple present hubbubs, present participle hubbubing or hubbubbing, simple past and past participle hubbubed or hubbubbed)

1. (rare, 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.

Imitating a word cried by the players.

hubbub (uncountable)

1. Synonym of bowl game (“Native American game of chance”).