Definition of "hubbub"

hubbub

/ˈhʌbʌb/

noun
plural hubbubs
1. A confused uproar, commotion, tumult or racket.
  Quotations
  At length a universal hubbub wildOf stunning sounds and voices all confused,Borne through the hollow dark, assaults his earWith loudest vehemence.
  1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
verb
third-person singular simple present hubbubs, present participle hubbubing or hubbubbing, simple past and past participle hubbubed or hubbubbed
1. (intransitive) To cause a tumult or racket.
  Quotations
  It becomes a grotto, hubbubbing with more noise than any class on a school visit could make, the air mobbed by breathless chatter about life and the transfer window.
  2016, Daniel Gray, Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football