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tohubohu

tohubohu is the alternative form of tohu-bohu.

Meaning of tohu-bohu

Noun

tohu-bohu (uncountable)

  1. Chaos, disorder, confusion.
    • Yet a judge may […] be required to dive, at a moment's notice, into the tohu-bohu of inquiries, which have never yet emerged from the stage of chaos...1875, W. E. [William Ewart] Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism

Questions about tohubohu

What is tohubohu the alternative form of?
Tohubohu is the alternative form of tohu-bohu.

Words near tohubohu in the dictionary

  1. Tohomé
  2. Tohono O'odham
  3. Tohopekaliga
  4. tohorah
  5. tohu-bohu
  6. tohubohu
  7. tohunga
  8. tohungaism
  9. tohungas
  10. tohutō
  11. TOI

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