Green’s Dictionary of Slang

confusion, chaos; thus hubble-bubble fellow, a fool.

1748		Dyche & Pardon New General Eng. Dict. (5th edn).
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 1: I mean the wrath of fierce achilles, / Making such grievious hubble-bubble.
c.1786		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue ms. additions n.p.: Hubble-Bubble, a Confusion, a Hubble Bubble fellow, a man of confused Ideas, one thick of speech whose sound like water bubbling out of a Bottle.
1788		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd edn) n.p.: Hubble-bubble. Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 46: This hubble-bubble they had coin’d, / By getting both their giblets join’d.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1788].
1820		‘L.A.W.—LAW!’ in London Songster 10: Misery, toil and trouble, / Make up the hubble bubble.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue [as cit. 1788].
1862		E. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 315/1: hubble-bubble, onomatopée qui signifie confusion.
1908		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Disaster Averted’ Sporting Times 23 May 1/3: It might look a bit allurin’ upon ’ere and there a one, / With neat ankles and small tootsies to display; / But on ’Liza, my old ‘fork and knife,’ who scales some sixteen ‘stun,’ / Well, there’d be some ‘’ubble bubble’ ’Ackney way.