hurlyburly

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Etymology

A combination of hurling and burling. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Needs sourcing; see talk page.”)

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Noun

hurlyburly (countable and uncountable, plural hurlyburlies)

  1. (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
    • 1550, Steuen Mierdman, 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.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 131:
      1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.
    • c. 1933, “Twentieth-Century Blues”, performed by Noël Coward:
      Why is it that civilized humanity / Can make the world so wrong? / In this hurly-burly of insanity / Our dreams cannot last long

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