Crossword clues for hubbub
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hubbub \Hub"bub\, n. [Cf. Whoobub, Whoop, Hoop, v. i.]
A loud noise of many confused voices; a tumult; uproar.
--Milton.
This hubbub of unmeaning words.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, whobub "confused noise," generally believed to be of Irish origin, perhaps from Gaelic ub!, expression of aversion or contempt, or Old Irish battle cry abu, from buide "victory."
Wiktionary
n. A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
WordNet
n. loud confused noise from many sources [syn: uproar, brouhaha, katzenjammer]
Usage examples of "hubbub".
There came a lull in the general hubbub, broken by a meow-ing from the staircase.
It could not, however, obliterate the hubbub, musical and otherwise, in the hall.
It has always been easier to leave Seahaven than to enter it, a door appears almost at once, and she opens it, steps back out into the hubbub of the BBS.
Moon, further in today than the last time she found it, closer to the hubbub of the central board where real business is transacted and transformed, she lifts a hand to the demon, who scowls but says nothing.
And as the hubbub died, one pair of hands clapping, and a figure in the doorway he had not seen before.
Italian sentries peering over their parapets saw a wall of humanity swarming out of the dark and broken ground, and heard the rising hubbub of hundreds of excited voices.
With relief they deposited the heavy chest before the Ras, amid a hubbub of voices from the dark mass of watchers.
She bowed her head and hurried on into the shed, into the stench and the low hubbub of groans and wails.
But hardly had they stumbled through the low doorway into the backkitchen when a fresh hubbub arose inside--more shouts for help.
The hubbub of many heated conversations reached his ears as he rapidly traversed the small backstage area at the rear of the structure.
The hubbub of hushed and excited voices blended with the tearful cries of confused infants and children, over the omnipresent hum of powerful, industrial-strength air cleaners.
He set an eye to a knothole in the planking and watched the hubbub approaching from the Hindenburg-Allee.
A stern, authoritative voice rang across the deck, cutting through the hubbub of the blood-crazed spectators.
Llewellyn relaxed slightly, they all drank the toast and sat down again in a hubbub of laughter and talk.
The tremendous hubbub of the street brawl is at its height and the business of the act is at an end.