subs. (old: now recognised).—See quots.

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  d. 1639.  ROBERT CAREY (Earl of Monmouth). Memoirs, 1759, p. 155. This made a great HUB-BUB in our Court.

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  1667.  MILTON, Paradise Lost, ii., 951.

            A universal HUBBUB wild,
Of stunning sounds.

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  1682.  BUNYAN, Holy War (1893 ed. M. Peacock, p. 58). The conscience and understanding begin to receive conviction, and they set the soul in a HUBBUB.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HUBBUB, a Noise in the Streets made by the Rabble.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. HUBBUB. A noise, riot, or disturbance.

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  1893.  Westminster Gazette, 8 Aug., p. 2, col. 1. An indescribable HUBBUB of showmen’s, hawkers’, and children’s voices from near and far.

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