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hurl⋅y-burl⋅y

  [hur-lee-bur-lee, -bur-] noun, plural -burl⋅ies, adjective
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–noun
1. noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.
–adjective
2. full of commotion; tumultuous.
Origin:
1520–30; alter. of hurling (and) burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in its (now obs.) sense of tumult, uproar
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hur·ly-bur·ly   (hûr'lē-bûr'lē)   
n.   pl. hur·ly-bur·lies
Noisy confusion; tumult.

[Alteration and reduplication of hurling, gerund of hurl.]
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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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