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hubbleshow, -shew, -shoo Sc. and north. Eng.|ˈhʌb(ə)lʃaʊ, -ʃuː|
Also 6 hoble-shew, 8–9 hobbleshow, -shaw.
[Etymology obscure.
The first element and the sense as a whole suggest those of early mod.Flem. hobbel-tobbel or hobbel-sobbel, explained by Kilian (1599) as ‘tumultuously, confusedly, in an uproar, promiscuously’, and hobbelen-tobbelen ‘to be in an uproar, rouse a tumult’. Hubble is also given by Jamieson, as used in some parts of Scotland in the sense ‘uproar, tumult’; but we have no evidence carrying this back to 1515, when hubbilschow is found.]
A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar, hubbub.
a1515Interlud of Droichis in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 314 Hiry, hary, hubbilschow! Se ȝe not quha is cum now. 1570Levins Manip. 180/23 An Hubbleshowe, tumultus. 1573Satir. Poems Reform. xlii. 754 Quhat hubbilschow thair maist haue bene For the displacing of ane Pastour. 1583Inquisition in T. West Antiq. Furness xvii. (1805) 227 That no assaulte, nor hubleshow, be made, sub pena iiis. iiijd. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. v. i, That gars me think this hobleshew that's past Will end in nothing but a joke at last. 1820Blackw. Mag. VII. 268 The coachman was so extortionate, that another hobbleshaw arose. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xl, What a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubbleshews of people one sits down with now. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Hublyshew, -shoo, a tumult, a crowd of disorderly persons. |
单词 hubble-bubble 释义 hubble-bubble|hb()lbb()l|[Redupl. from bubble, as suggestive of th......