Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Chaos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rare Chaos; confusion.
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- noun
chaos ,confusion
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Examples
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I was big on rigor myself, and I suspected that, like me, Liam had chosen to embrace it in order to keep the inner tohubohu down to a dull roar.
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I steered mechanically through it all, changing gear, stopping, swerving, going through all the rapid actions necessary to getting a vehicle more or less undamaged through that incredible tohubohu.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), based in Sunnyvale, was a giant in the tohubohu of early Internet days, and is still a big player, though it has since been eclipsed by Google in search and other areas.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
akmed13 commented on the word tohubohu
tohubohu (TOH-hoo-BO-hoo) noun
Chaos; confusion.
From Hebrew tohu wa-bhohu, from tohu (formlessness) and bhohu (emptiness).
-Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)
"Our problem is tohubohu. Our industry is drowning in it. But
somehow, even with all the confusion and disorder, we manage
to develop systems."
Jerrold Grochow; Take a Little Tohubohu Off the Top; Software
Magazine (Englewood, Colorado); Nov 1995.
January 3, 2007