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Hubbub
Webster 1828 Edition
Hubbub
HUB'BUB
,Noun.
Definition 2024
hubbub
hubbub
See also: hub-bub
English
Alternative forms
- whobub (obsolete)
Noun
hubbub (plural hubbubs)
- A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:commotion
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.