ub(b)ubboo
variant of hubbuboo.
1702 Farquhar Twin-Rivals v. iii, Ububboo, a Witch, a Witch. 1851 Borrow Lavengro xi, Cut-throat kens, where thirty ruffians..would spring up with brandished sticks and an ‘ubbubboo, like the blowing up of a powder-magazine’. |