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)
- 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]...
Questions about hubbubbing
- What is hubbubbing the present participle and gerund of?
- Hubbubbing is the present participle and gerund of hubbub.
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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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