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hurlyburly
hurlyburly
See also: hurly-burly
English
Alternative forms
Noun
hurlyburly (plural hurlyburlies)
- (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
- 1550: Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
- ...for nought is ceaſſed and gone already, what an hurlyburly (?) inconvenience ſhoulde followe or it maye be eaſely perceived.
- 1606: Shakespeare, William, Macbeth
- First Witch: When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
- Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done, / When the battle's lost and won.
- 1550: Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers
Translations
noisy and disorderly tumult