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hubbuboo
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 Stat...
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ubbubboo
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’.
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hubbub
hubbub (ˈhʌbʌb) Forms: 6 hooboube, -boobe, hoeboube, 6–7 who-, hu-, hobub, 7 whoo-bub, whoopubb, hoobub, howbub, how-bub, hub hub, 7– hubbub. [In 16th c. hooboube, -boobe, often referred to as an Irish outcry, and prob. representing some Irish expression. Cf. Gaelic ub! ub! ubub! an interj. of avers...
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