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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1611, 1688-1689
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Hub(b)le-bub(b)le, n. [Cf. later dial. hubble, also hubblebub, in the same sense; also e.m.E. hubble-shubble (c 1550) id., late e.m.E. hubble-bubble a hookah, mod. Eng. dial. Hobble-bobble confusion, Germ. hoppel-poppel id. (also, an egg-flip), e.m.E. hooboob, hubbub, and Hubbilschow n.] A confusion, hubbub, uproar; also, a rabble, mob. Also attrib. — 1611 (16..) J. Melvill Black Bastel 5/1, in Fugitive Poetry I.
Me thought assembly summon'd was and called Of huble buble sheepheards hir'd and thralled a1689 Cleland 42.
He presuming for to strugle, Occasioned a huble buble a1689 Ib. 90.
Suffer my argumentation To stand, lest striving it to trouble Ye mire into a hubble bubble
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