whoobub
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]whoobub (plural not attested)
- Obsolete form of hubbub.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- had not the old man come in with a whoobub against his daughter and the king's son […]
References
[edit]- “whoobub”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.