Definitions
Etymologies
- From the Hebrew phrase תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ (tóhu vavóhu, "formless and empty") in Genesis 1:2. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“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
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tohubohu’.
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Confusually
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Never For Sale On Craigslist
List of items never for sale on craigslist.
Should you find one of these for sale, let us know. We'll scare you up a coupon for a free day at a gym or something.vectis, soupir, porcupine-machine, electric pig, poke-bonnet, shawm, staddle stone, beating-engine, hicon, figurehead, low-warp loom, radevore and 516 more...
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drspork's Words
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
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What's next here?
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Master
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Hocus-pocus, I see a crocus!
Reduplicatives
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Nihilarity
Absurdity, dark art, radicalism, anger, tragic irony, and nothingness. Tee-hee!
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akmed13 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. Jan 3, 2007