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hubbuboo, -aboo|ˈhʌbəˌbuː|
Forms: 6 hubba-, hubbobowe, 9– hubbub(b)oo, hub(b)aboo; also 8 ho-bo-bo-boo, 9 hubbubbubboo.
[App. of same origin as prec.: cf. Irish abu! the war-cry of the ancient Irish.]
A confused crying or yelling; esp. as a savage war-cry; hence, a tumult, turmoil.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 632/1 They come running with a terrible yell and hubbabowe, as yf heaven and earth would have gone together, which is the very image of the Irish hubbabowe, which theyr kerne use at theyr first encounter. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. xxiii. (1754) II. 210 Every now and then [they] break out into a hideous Howl and Ho-bo-bo-boo. 1830Examiner 353/1 The speech..is like an Irish row..It is a hubaboo, an affair of noise and blows. 1874L. Carr Jud. Gwynne I. vii. 210 What a hubbuboo arose! 1892E. Lawless Grania II. viii. 151 Och, Mary Queen of Heaven, but that was a hubbuboo! |