hubbleshow
English
Noun
hubbleshow (countable and uncountable, plural hubbleshows)
- A noisy confusion; hubbub.
- 1824, Susan Edomonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance:
- 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 a rational converstation.
- 1849, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 276:
- 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.
- 1863, John Close, Titus Stubbs, Tales and Legends of Westmoreland:
- All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.
- 1894, Susan Ferrier, Destiny, page 134:
- O, if that silly man would but stop till all this hubbleshow's past!