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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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HUBBLESHEW, n. Also hubbel-, hubbil-; hob(b)le-, hobbel-, hobbil-; habble-; hooble-; hubbi-, hobbi-, hobba-; hubber-, humel(I.Sc.); -s(c)how, -sho(o), -shew, -sheu, -shue; -shaw; -skue, -skju, -stju, -stew (Sh.); ¶-sheuf.

1. An uproar, tumult, a row, an altercation, babel, hubbub (Kcb.4 1900, habbleshew; Sh. 1914 Angus Gl., hubbelskju, Sh. 1957, hubbleshew, hubbiestew), a flurry, a predicament.Sc. 1725 Ramsay Gentle Shepherd v. i.:
That gars me think this Hobleshew that's past Will land in naithing but a Joke at last.
Abd. 1768 A. Ross Helenore (S.T.S.) 95:
As they gang in, Ralph unto Colen says, Yon hobbleshaw is like some stour to raise.
Sc. 1797 Scots Mag. (Aug.) 534:
Our southern nibours have sae dumfounder'd and sma' spun, and refined their hobble shew o' words, that it can neither be unnerstood or pronounced by themselves or ithers.
Slk. 1818 Hogg B. of Bodsbeck xiv.:
My army was gathering like a snaw-ba', an' I little wist how sic a hobbleshue might end.
Ayr. 1822 Galt Provost xxxviii.:
My wife had been at the window when the hobbleshow began.
Sc. 1827 Scott Letters (Cent. ed.) X. 288:
After this hobbleshew I retired to Alnwick.
Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin xxxiii.:
It was really nae marvel though my puir carkitch caught a kenned mark or twa in the midst o' the hobbleshow.
Sh. 1877 G. Stewart Fireside Tales 27:
Da hubbleshue o' oot door wark tak's a' his time.
Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 118:
A bonnie humelsho an' sturt Th'u're meed.
Lnk. 1928 W. C. Fraser Yelpin' Stane 138:
I little thocht that the hubbleshoo about the Muirburn wad turn oot like this.
Sh. 1956 New Shetlander No. 43. 21:
Then, with the flocks in the krue, there is a hubbleskue, or uproar, of people shouting and laughing, sheep yaarmin, dugs barking.

2. A mob, an unruly gathering, a disorderly crowd, a rabble (Sc. 1790 F. Grose Gl.).Dmf. 1808 J. Mayne Siller Gun 75:
The hubbleshew, Wi' neeves, and staffs, and rugging hair, Sae awsome grew!
Sc. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance II. viii.:
What a pleasant thing for a few friends to meet this way, instead of these great hubble-shews of people one sits down with now.
Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch (1839) v.:
So what does I, when I saw the whole hobble-shaw coming fleeing down the street, with the kick-ba at their noses, but up I speels upon the stone.
Ayr. 1836 Galt Rich Man (1925) 129:
There was then no Kirk near it, but only a Relief hobbleshow.

3. Fig. An unkempt, untidily dressed girl (Ork. 1920 J. Firth Reminisc. 150, hubbershew).

[O.Sc. hobillschowe, hubbilschow, = 1., from c.1500. For the first element, cf. Hubble, Hobble, and, for the whole word, early mod. Flem. hobbel-s(j)obbel, in an uproar, confusedly. The form hubble-shubble is attested for E.M.E. c.1550.]

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