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gar⋅boil

  [gahr-boil]
–noun Archaic.
confusion.
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Origin:
1540–50; < MF garbouil < OIt garbuglio
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gar·boil   (gär'boil')   
n.   Archaic
Confusion; uproar.

[Obsolete French garbouil, from Old French, from Old Italian garbuglio, perhaps from Latin bullīre, to boil.]
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