hubbub

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhʌbʌb/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AH1 B AH0 B Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

Used by New England colonists (17th–18th century) to imitate the sounds hub, hub, hub cried by the players: see the 1634 quotation.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَلَبَة (jalaba) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Arabic: صَخَب (ṣaḵab) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Arabic: ضَوْضَاء (ḍawḍāʔ) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Arabic: ضَجَّة (ḍajja) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Arabic: ضَجِيج (ḍajīj) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Basque: zalaparta — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Bulgarian: глъчка (glǎčka) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Bulgarian: врява (vrjava) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: aldarull — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: avalot — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: brogit — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: cridòria — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: gatzara — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Catalan: rebombori — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Chinese Mandarin: 吵鬧 /吵闹 (chǎonào) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Chinese Mandarin: 塵囂 /尘嚣 (chénxiāo) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Chinese Mandarin: 喧嘩 (xuānhuá) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Czech: hluk — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Czech: pozdvižení — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Czech: povyk — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Finnish: hälinä — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Finnish: kohina — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Finnish: mekkala — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• French: brouhaha — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• French: tohu-bohu — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Georgian: გნიასი (gniasi) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Georgian: ყაყანი (q̇aq̇ani) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Durcheinander — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Stimmengewirr — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Tohuwabohu — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Trubel — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Tumult — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• German: Wirrwarr — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Greek: φασαρία (fasaría) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Hindi: हुड़दंग (huṛdaṅg) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Hungarian: lárma — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Italian: brusio — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Japanese: 喧々囂々 (kenkengōgō) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Japanese: 騒ぎ (sawagi) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Japanese: 猥雑 (waizatsu) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Central Kurdish: ھەرا (hera) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Macedonian: џагор (džagor) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Maltese: għagħa — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Māori: hū — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Māori: rarī — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Māori: tararau — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Māori: whakatioro — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Persian: هیاهو (hayâhu) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Plautdietsch: Jeläw — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Plautdietsch: Klommua — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: gwar — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: harmider — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: tumult — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: wrzawa — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: zamieszanie — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Polish: zgiełk — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Portuguese: comoção — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Russian: гам (gam) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Russian: переполо́х (perepolóx) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: algarabía — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: algarada — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: griterío — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: guirigay — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: tiberio — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: tremolina — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Spanish: tropelaje — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Swedish: ståhej — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Turkish: curcuna — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Turkish: karmaşa — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Turkish: patırtı — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Turkish: velvele — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Ottoman Turkish: خلاش (hılaş) — confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously;
• Finnish: hälistä — to make a confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously
• Finnish: kohista — to make a confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously
• French: boucan — to make a confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously