tohubohu

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tohubohu
\TOH-hoo-BOH-hoo\

noun
1. chaos; disorder; confusion.

Learn this: joy is not merely joyful; it is great. So be lovers gaily then, the devil! and marry, when you do marry, with the fever and the dizziness and the uproar and the tohubohu of happiness.
— Victor Hugo, translated by Charles E. Wilbour, Les Misérables, 1862

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