hubbub: [16] Hubbub is an Irish contribution to English. It comes from Irish Gaelic hooboobbes, which appears to be related to the Old Irish battle-cry abú. This was a derivative of buide ‘victory’ (a relative of which across the Irish Sea formed the basis of the name Boudicca or Boadicea, the Ancient Britons’ version of Victoria). English acquired the word (and the now disused longer form hubbuboo) in the mid 16th century, and originally used it for the ‘warcry of a savage tribe’; the modern sense ‘noisy turmoil’ developed in the 17th century.
hubbub (n.)
1550s, whobub "confused noise," generally believed to be of Irish origin, perhaps from Gaelic ub!, expression of aversion or contempt, or Old Irish battle cry abu, from buide "victory."
雙語例句
1. It was difficult to hear what he was saying over the hubbub.
聲音太嘈雜，難以聽清楚他的講話。
來自《權威詞典》
2. A hubbub was heard in the courtyard.
院子里一片吵鬧聲.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. In all the hubbub over the election, one might be excused for missing yesterday's announcement.
在選舉造成的一片混亂中，沒有聽到昨天的公告也是情有可原的。
來自柯林斯例句
4. In the hubbub of city life, it is hard for us to imagine the people and the things of the past, and how indeed these people felt about the world.
天天生活在城市里的我們很難想像過去的人,過去的事, 過去的年代與感覺.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. The hubbub of voices drowned out the host's voice.