All the hubbub in the airport made it hard to hear the flight announcements.
the hubbub surrounding the film star
We went to the country to escape the hubbub of the city.
What's all the hubbub about?
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The Messina Hof name is a big deal in Texas, and despite the popularity of their tasting room and satellite vineyard in the Texas Hill Country, the soil near Bryan is at the crux of where the hubbub surrounding Texas grapes got started.—Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025 Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.—Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025 In the days following the hubbub, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos defended Chappelle's special in a memo to staff.—EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025 In the midst of the hubbub, Henry bent his long, thin legs to speak to his granddaughter eye to eye.—Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hubbub
Word History
Etymology
perhaps of Irish origin; akin to Scottish Gaelic ub ub, interjection of contempt
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