Hubbub
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- hubbub: riot, din, ado
- hibbub: (Hebrew) love
- hubbub: cf. Milton, Paradise Lost XII.59 ff:
- ... great laughter was in Heav'n
- And looking down, to see the hubbubb strange
- And hear the din; thus was the building left
- Ridiculous, and the work Confusion nam'd.
- (Confusion was thought to be the meaning of Babel.)