Definitions for hurly-burly

hurly-burly hurl·y-burl·y

Spelling: [hur-lee-bur-lee, -bur-]
IPA: /ˈhɜr liˈbɜr li, -ˌbɜr-/

Hurly-Burly is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in hurly-burly (-bhllrruuyy).

Definitions for hurly-burly

noun

  1. noisy disorder and confusion; commotion; uproar; tumult.

adjective

  1. full of commotion; tumultuous.

Origin of hurly-burly

1520-30; alteration of hurling (and) burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in its (now obsolete) sense of tumult, uproar

Examples for hurly-burly

I went on, a thought coming to the surface in the hurly-burly of my mind.

They tell me you were the man who pulled me out of that hurly-burly.

But what can have brought you into this hurly-burly of folly and wickedness?

It was all hurly-burly, and every one was ordered immediately to quarters.

I summon from that humming and hurly-burly past, the ancient proof-reader.

So fierce was the hurly-burly that it seemed as if man and horse must perish under it.

He returned home to be swept into the hurly-burly of military affairs.

Quickly he was lost to view in the hurly-burly of foam and spray.

Once in the hurly-burly of the foam the chances would be all on its side.

In the hurly-burly and the general shriek for mercy his reassurances were not heard.

Word Value for hurly-burly
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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