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I'll expound but I ain't voting.
The hyphen is a transitional form between double words and single words, e.g., base ball, base-ball, baseball. In the case of hubbub there was no initial form hub bub
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I vote for #1, mainly because I agree with Juan that there is too much hyphenventilating already!!!
And I think I should get weighted credit as I actually use the word, on occasion.
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>tsuwm doesn't like the double-b...
wherever did you get that notion? furthermoreover and in the second place, I emphatically agree with Faldo: there never was a hub-bub. and finally, hubbub looks more like an uproar than does hub-bub!
A universal hubbub wilde Of stunning sounds and voices all confus'd. Milton, Paradise Lost
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No hyphen. It's never had one, and shouldn't ever have one in the future either. And aside from that, hyphenating it slows it down too much.
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So, lessee...what you're saying then, is that the introduction of a hyphen into any standing word structure for clarity's sake is taboo? That unless a hyphen is a part of the transition of two words forming into one word (as per baseball), then hypens are illegal? Well, let's see what one of the foremost coiners of newly-hypenated (  ) words for the sake of gaining poetic imagery, a more original semantic nuance, Mr. Dylan Thomas, had to say...oh, and this just so happens to be from a "minor" work of his you may or may not know, Under Milkwood, the opening: To begin at the beginning:
It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the
sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.So, unless these instances are on their way to becoming, let's say, courters'andrabbits' and fishingboatbobbingsea, I guess they're taboo as well? And the only thing worse then complaining about a writer's strategically-chosen hyphen is for an editor to place a hypen in an author's word without any consultation...but we won't mention any names, tswum. 
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>a bit more from Dylan Thomas:
From where you are, you can hear, in Cockle Row in the spring, moonless night, Miss Price, dressmaker and sweetshop-keeper, dream of her lover, tall as the town clock tower, Samson-syrup-gold-maned, whacking thighed and piping hot, thunderbolt-bass'd and barnacle-breasted flailing up the cockles with his eyes like blowlamps and scooping low over her lonely loving hotwaterbottled body ...<
--Under Milkwood
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and a bit more from Mr. Thomas: P. C. Atilla Rees, ox-broad, barge-booted, stomping out of Handcuff House in a heavy beef-red huff, black-browed under his damp helmet... -- Under MilkwoodNotice how in the the first-quoted excerpt Thomas chooses to use a hyphen for bible-black, but not for sloeblack or crowblack?...insert or delete hyphens as you will...poet's perogative! 
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