HURLY-BURLY


Meaning of HURLY-BURLY in English

/herr"lee berr"lee, -berr'-/ , n. , pl. hurly-burlies , adj.

n.

1. noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.

adj.

2. full of commotion; tumultuous.

[ 1520-30; alter. of hurling ( and ) burling, rhyming phrase based on HURLING in its (now obs.) sense of tumult, uproar ]

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