noun
Origin: ? from the practice in early radio broadcasts of repeating “rhubarb” in simulating crowd noises
Slang a heated discussion or argumentOrigin: ME rubarbe < OFr rheubarbe < ML rheubarbarum, altered < LL rha barbarum < Gr rhēon barbaron, foreign rhubarb < rhēon, rhubarb (< Pers rēwend) + barbaron, foreign, barbarous
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noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English rubarbe
Origin: , from Old French
Origin: , from Late Latin reubarbarum
Origin: , probably alteration (influenced by Greek rhēon)
Origin: of rhabarbarum
Origin: : rha, rhubarb (from Greek rhā, perhaps from Rhā, the Volga River)
Origin: + Latin barbarum
Origin: , neuter of barbarus, barbarian, foreign; see barbarous
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