hurly burly
liˈbɜr noun
1.
noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
adjective
2.
full of commotion; tumultuous.
Origin:
1520–30; alteration of hurling (and) burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in its (now obsolete) sense of tumult, uproar
1520–30; alteration of hurling (and) burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in its (now obsolete) sense of tumult, uproar
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| —n , pl hurly-burlies | |
| 1. | confusion or commotion |
| —adj | |
| 2. | turbulent |
| [C16: from earlier hurling and burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in obsolete sense of uproar] | |
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hurly-burly
1539, alteration of phrase hurling and burling, reduplication of 14c. hurling "commotion, tumult," verbal noun of hurl (q.v.). Hurling time was the name applied by chroniclers to the period of tumult and commotion around Wat Tyler's rebellion.
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