hurrah's nest

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English

Noun

hurrah's nest

  1. (US, archaic, informal, idiomatic) A state of chaos and confusion.
    • 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks:
      A perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen.
    • 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:
      "What's all this hurrah's-nest for'ard?" said Dan, pointing to a wild tangle of spare oars and dory-roding, all matted together by the hand of inexperience.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hurrah's nest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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