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hubbubbing

hubbubbing is the present participle and gerund of hubbub.

Meaning of hubbub

Verb

hubbub (third-person singular simple present hubbubs, present participle hubbubbing or hubbubing, simple past and past participle hubbubbed or hubbubed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To make a confused sound of a crowd of people shouting or speaking simultaneously; to cause a racket or tumult.
    • Then, what wretched writing?—"Poured upon the plain,"—"scatter o'er the fields,"—"whitens all the skies,"—"brighten all the fields,"—"flame the skies,"—and "laugh the fields," all huddled and hubbubbed together into one chaotic sentence.1831 December, [John Wilson], “[William] Sotheby’s Homer. Critique IV. Achilles. Part I.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXI, number CLXXXVIII, Edinburgh: [Ballantyne and Co. for]...

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Questions about hubbubbing

What is hubbubbing the present participle and gerund of?
Hubbubbing is the present participle and gerund of hubbub.

Words near hubbubbing in the dictionary

  1. hubbly bubbly
  2. hubbly-bubblies
  3. hubbly-bubbly
  4. hubbub
  5. hubbubbed
  6. hubbubbing
  7. hubbubboo
  8. hubbubboos
  9. hubbubed
  10. hubbubing
  11. hubbuboo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hubbubbing (page history and authors); hubbub (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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