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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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