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語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈhʌbʌb/

名詞

hubbub (複数形 hubbubs)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →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.

動詞

hubbub (三人称単数 現在形 hubbubs, 現在分詞 hubbubing または hubbubbing, 過去形および過去分詞形 hubbubed または hubbubbed)

1. (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.