hubbleshow

Definitions

A noisy confusion; hubbub.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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 carrying on any thing like⟳ rational conversation.”

“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.”

“All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.”

“O, if that silly man would but stop⟳ till all this hubbleshow's past!”

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