hubbleshow

plural hubbleshows

1. Northern EnglandScotlandcountableuncountableA noisy confusion; hubbub.

   O, if that silly man would but stop till all this hubbleshow's past!

   1894, Susan Ferrier, Destiny, page 134

   3 more examples

   I was really wearying to get to my own house for a little, if it was only to refresh myself with a drop plain barley-broth, and a bit boiled mutton ; and what a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubbleshows of people one sits down with now, where there's no carrying on any thing like rational conversation.

   1824, Susan Edomonstone Ferrier, The Inheritance

   Why, it is not in the power of any Christian man to tell ye what happened — Such a hubbleshow, such a racketing, such fighting, such knocking down, such a rushing and riving.

   1849, John Gibson Lockhart, Reginald Dalton, page 276

   All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.

   1863, John Close, Titus Stubbs, Tales and Legends of Westmoreland