hurly
AmericanEtymology
Origin of hurly
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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So after this week of diplomatic hurly burly, how much has changed?
From BBC • May 16, 2025
As much as the hurly burly of the Coen brothers’ movies might seem distant from Shakespearean tragedy, their films are crowded with schemers seized by misguided ambitions — just usually more farcical ones.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021
I didn’t see the call when it came in, in the hurly burly of things I didn’t notice.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016
New justices must adjust to another sort of hurly burly, as Justice Kagan, who joined the court in 2010, learned at one point during Tuesday’s argument.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2012
Their servants, who had known in childhood the hurly burly of caravanserais and slave markets, told them of a world where everybody was possessed by a thousand devils of ingenuity and wit.
From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French
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