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• a variation of hurley.

hurly

American  

[hur-lee] / ˈhɜr li /

noun

• hurlies
  plural

1. commotion; hurly-burly.

2. British. hurley.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• hurlies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of hurly

First recorded in 1590–1600

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Example Sentences

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hurly hurlies

So after this week of diplomatic hurly burly, how much has changed?

From BBC ● May 16, 2025

And for Rylance, the hurly burly of theater — “a dance with the audience,” he calls it — has always most propelled him as an actor.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

I need to do that outside of the hurly burly of the regular office.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2020

Bobby Moore had about him a serenity on the football field's hurly burly that never, in my slight experience, has been matched.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013

I thinke it was the diuels reuelling night, There was such hurly burly in the heauens: Doubtles Apollos Axeltree is crackt, Or aged Atlas shoulder out of ioynt, The motion was soouer violent.

From The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

"Are you deserting me, Peter?" put in Kitty playfully; "the other hurlies are busy with the De Lancey party; we must have two or three at least."

From An Unwilling Maid Being the History of Certain Episodes during the American Revolution in the Early Life of Mistress Betty Yorke, born Wolcott by Jeanie Gould Lincoln

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