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hubbleshow

hubbleshow noun: a noisy confusion; hubbub.

Noun

hubbleshow (countable and uncountable, plural hubbleshows)

  1. A noisy confusion; hubbub.
    • I was really wearying to get to my own house for a little, if it was only to refresh myself with a drop plain barley-broth, and a bit boiled mutton ; and what a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubbleshows of people one sits down with now, where there's no...1824, Susan Edomonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance
    • Why, it is not in the power of any Christian man to tell ye what happened — Such a hubbleshow, such a racketing, such fighting, such knocking down, such a rushing and riving.1849, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 276

Examples of hubbleshow in a sentence

  • All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.1863, John Close, Titus Stubbs, Tales and Legends of Westmoreland:
  • O, if that silly man would but stop till all this hubbleshow's past!1894, Susan Ferrier, Destiny, page 134:

Forms of hubbleshow

pluralhubbleshows

Questions about hubbleshow

What does hubbleshow mean?
Hubbleshow means a noisy confusion; hubbub.
How do you use hubbleshow in a sentence?
All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.
What part of speech is hubbleshow?
Hubbleshow is a noun.
What is the plural of hubbleshow?
The plural of hubbleshow is hubbleshows.

Words near hubbleshow in the dictionary

  1. Hubble's Star
  2. Hubble's Variable
  3. hubble-bubble
  4. hubble-bubbles
  5. hubbles
  6. hubbleshow
  7. hubbleshows
  8. hubbly
  9. hubbly bubblies
  10. hubbly bubbly
  11. hubbly-bubblies

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