hurly-burly
41higgledy-piggledy — confusedly, hurriedly, 1590s, a vocal gesture [OED] probably formed from PIG (Cf. pig) and the animal s suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h /p pattern are common (e.g. hanky panky, hocus pocus, hinch(y) pinch(y), an obsolete …
42hurry-scurry — n 1. haste, rush, precipitation; confusion, disorder; agitation, perturbation, disquietude, fidgetiness, dither, jitters, Inf. stew, Inf. sweat, Inf. cold sweat; flurry, flutter, fuss, furor, ruffle, turmoil, commotion; stir, whirl, pother, Dial …
43hur·ly-bur·ly — /ˌhɚliˈbɚli/ noun [noncount] : a very active or confused state or situation the hurly burly of politics We left the hurly burly of city life and moved to the countryside …
44to-do — n Informal. ado, bustle, hustle and bustle, hustle, flurry, flutter, buzzing or flitting about, scurry, hurry scurry, running around, doing, Sometimes Facetious. do; busyness, stir, activity, action, motion, movement; fuss, fuss and feathers,… …
45turmoil — n 1. tumult, tumultousness, uproar, up roariousness, pandemonium, chaos; agitation, unrest, ferment, Archaic. pucker, disquiet, disturbance, upheaval, storm, tempest, disorder, confusion, imbroglio; hurly burly, hurly, brouhaha, commotion, stir,… …
46hurl|y — hurl|y1 «HUR lee», noun, plural hurl|ies. commotion; hurly burly: »with the hurly, death itself awakes (Shakespeare). ╂[< hurl] hurl|y2 «HUR lee», noun, plural hurl|ie …
47Hullabaloo — Hul la*ba*loo , n. [Perh. a corruption of hurly burly.] A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray. [1913 Webster] …
48Hurl — Hurl, n. 1. The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. Congreve. [1913 Webster] 2. Tumult; riot; hurly burly. [Obs.] Knolles. [1913 Webster] 3. (Hat Manuf.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a… …
49Hurried — Hurry Hur ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hurried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hurrying}.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all… …
50Hurry — Hur ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hurried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hurrying}.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all prob. of …
