Hubbub vs Bustle - What's the difference?
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A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
An excited activity; a stir.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
(computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
*, II.3.6:
To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
Hubbub is a related term of bustle.
As nouns the difference between hubbub and bustle
is that hubbub is a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket while bustle is an excited activity; a stir.As a verb bustle is
to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).hubbub
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Alternative forms
* whobub (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- At length a universal hubbub wild
- Of stunning sounds and voices all confused,
- Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his ear
- With loudest vehemence.
Synonyms
* See alsobustle
English
Noun
(en noun)- we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
Derived terms
* hustle and bustleVerb
- The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
- I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
- The train station was bustling with commuters.