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Hullabaloo vs Hubbub - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hullabaloo and hubbub

is that hullabaloo is an uproar or fuss while hubbub is a confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.

hullabaloo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An uproar or fuss.
    • They made such a hullabaloo about the change that the authorities were forced to change it back.
  • * 1902 —
    • Certainly they had brought with them some rotten hippo–meat, which couldn’t have lasted very long, anyway, even if the pilgrims hadn’t, in the midst of a shocking hullabaloo , thrown a considerable quantity of it overboard.

    Synonyms

    * ado * fuss * hype * to-do * uproar *

    hubbub

    English

    Alternative forms

    * whobub (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
  • * John Milton, Paradise Lost
    • 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 also