• IPA: /ˈhʌbʌb/

hubbub (plural hubbubs)

1. A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     At length a universal hubbub wild

     Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,

     Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear

     With loudest vehemence.

• See also Thesaurus:commotion

• French: brouhaha, tohu-bohu
• German: Tumult, Wirrwarr, Tohuwabohu, Trubel, Stimmengewirr
• Italian: brusio
• Portuguese: comoção
• Russian: переполо́х
• Spanish: algarabía, guirigay, tremolina, tiberio

hubbub (hubbubs, present participle hubbubing; past and past participle hubbubed)

1. (intransitive) To cause a tumult or racket.
   • 2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

     It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.