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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--hubbub This week's theme: Words borrowed from Irish. hubbub (HUB-ub) noun Excited fuss or tumult of a crowd. [Perhaps from Irish ubub (an interjection of contempt).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Italian footballers were showered with applause and surrounded by flashing cameras, songs, and chants. The hubbub generates a sense of excitement unique to the sport of football." Do Hung; Champions' Charm; Thanh Nien (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam); Jun 5, 2008. X-Bonus Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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