hubbub
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hubbub¹
- /ˈhʌbʌb/ US, UK
Where it comes from
In early use, the noun is often mentioned as a cry by Irish people, and so is possibly borrowed from Irish; compare Irish ababú, abú (“used as a battle cry”), and Scottish Gaelic ub, ub, ubub (“used to express contempt, etc.”), ubh ubh (“used to express disgust”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
noun hubbubs · hub-bub · whobub
- A confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously; an uproar. They heard a noyſe of many bagpipes ſhrill, / And ſhrieking Hububs them approching nere, / VVhich all the foreſt did vvith horrour fill: […]
- Noisy confusion; commotion, uproar; (countable) an instance of this; an ado, a commotion. The vvindovves clattring / And all the Chambermaides in ſuch a vvhobub, / One vvith her ſmocke halfe off, another in haſt / VVith a ſervingmans hoſe upon her head.
- A sound of people making a battle cry or war cry.
verb hubbubs · hubbubbing · hubbubing · hubbubbed · hubbubed
- To make a confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously; to cause a racket or tumult. Then, what wretched writing?—"Poured upon the plain,"—"scatter o'er the fields,"—"whitens all the skies,"—"brighten all the fields,"—"flame the skies,"—and "laugh the fields," all huddled and hubbubbed together into one chaotic sentence.
hubbub²
- /ˈhʌbʌb/ US, UK
Where it comes from
Used by New England colonists (17th–18th century) to imitate the sounds hub, hub, hub cried by the players: see the 1634 quotation.
noun
- Synonym of bowl game (“a Native American game of chance involving the throwing of colored nuts from a bowl, comparable to dice”). They have tvvo ſorts of games, one called Puim, the other Hubbub, not much unlike Cards and Dice, being no other than Lotterie. […] Hubbub is five ſmall Bones in a ſmall ſmooth Tray, the bones bee like a Die, but ſomething flatter, blacke on one ſide and vvhite on the other, vvhich they place on the
