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hub⋅bub

  [huhb-uhb]
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–noun
1. a loud, confused noise, as of many voices: There was quite a hubbub in the auditorium after the announcement.
2. tumult; uproar.
Origin:
1545–55; appar. of Ir orig.; akin to ScotGael cry ubub! (redupl. of ub!) expressing aversion or contempt

Synonyms:
1. See noise. 2. disturbance, disorder, confusion.

Antonyms:
1. quiet. 2. calm.
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hub·bub   (hŭb'ŭb')   
n.  
  1. Loud noise; din. See Synonyms at noise.
  2. Confusion; tumult.

[Probably of Irish Gaelic origin; akin to Scottish Gaelic ubub, an interjection of aversion or contempt.]
Word History: It has often been remarked that the early Celtic inhabitants of Britain contributed very little to the stock of English words. Perhaps this should not surprise us, given the difficult relations over the centuries between the people of Germanic stock and the people of Celtic stock in England and Ireland. It seems likely that a certain English contempt resides in the adoption of the word hubbub from a Celtic source, which is probably related to ub ub ubub, a Scots Gaelic interjection expressing contempt, or to abu, an ancient Irish war cry. In any case, hubbub was first recorded (1555) in the phrase Irish hubbub and meant "the confused shouting of a crowd." In addition to the senses it has developed, hubbub was again used, possibly in an unflattering way, by the New England colonists as a term for a rambunctious game played by Native Americans.
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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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : hubbub
Spanish: algarabía, alboroto, bullicio, griterío,
German: das Stimmengewirr,
Japanese: がやがや
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hubbub 
1555, whobub "confused noise," generally believed to be of Irish origin, perhaps from Gaelic ub!, expression of aversion or contempt, or O.Ir. battle cry abu, from buide "victory."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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