hubbuboo, -aboo
(ˈhʌbəˌbuː)
Forms: 6 hubba-, hubbobowe, 9– hubbub(b)oo, hub(b)aboo; also 8 ho-bo-bo-boo, 9 hubbubbubboo.
[App. of same origin as prec.: cf. Irish abu! the war-cry of the ancient Irish.]
A confused crying or yelling; esp. as a savage war-cry; hence, a tumult, turmoil.
| 1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 632/1 They come running with a terrible yell and hubbabowe, as yf heaven and earth would have gone together, which is the very image of the Irish hubbabowe, which theyr kerne use at theyr first encounter. c 1730 Burt Lett. N. Scotl. xxiii. (1754) II. 210 Every now and then [they] break out into a hideous Howl and Ho-bo-bo-boo. 1830 Examiner 353/1 The speech..is like an Irish row..It is a hubaboo, an affair of noise and blows. 1874 L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. vii. 210 What a hubbuboo arose! 1892 E. Lawless Grania II. viii. 151 Och, Mary Queen of Heaven, but that was a hubbuboo! |