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51Maurice Hurley — (screenwriter) Maurice Hurly of the Hurly Baronets This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same personal name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article …
52higgledy-piggledy — confusedly, hurriedly, 1590s, a vocal gesture [OED] probably formed from PIG (Cf. pig) and the animal s suggestions of mess and disorder. Reduplications in the h /p pattern are common (e.g. hanky panky, hocus pocus, hinch(y) pinch(y), an obsolete …
53hurry-scurry — n 1. haste, rush, precipitation; confusion, disorder; agitation, perturbation, disquietude, fidgetiness, dither, jitters, Inf. stew, Inf. sweat, Inf. cold sweat; flurry, flutter, fuss, furor, ruffle, turmoil, commotion; stir, whirl, pother, Dial …
54to-do — n Informal. ado, bustle, hustle and bustle, hustle, flurry, flutter, buzzing or flitting about, scurry, hurry scurry, running around, doing, Sometimes Facetious. do; busyness, stir, activity, action, motion, movement; fuss, fuss and feathers,… …
55turmoil — n 1. tumult, tumultousness, uproar, up roariousness, pandemonium, chaos; agitation, unrest, ferment, Archaic. pucker, disquiet, disturbance, upheaval, storm, tempest, disorder, confusion, imbroglio; hurly burly, hurly, brouhaha, commotion, stir,… …
56hurl|y — hurl|y1 «HUR lee», noun, plural hurl|ies. commotion; hurly burly: »with the hurly, death itself awakes (Shakespeare). ╂[< hurl] hurl|y2 «HUR lee», noun, plural hurl|ie …
57hur·ly-bur·ly — /ˌhɚliˈbɚli/ noun [noncount] : a very active or confused state or situation the hurly burly of politics We left the hurly burly of city life and moved to the countryside …
58Hullabaloo — Hul la*ba*loo , n. [Perh. a corruption of hurly burly.] A confused noise; uproar; tumult. [Colloq.] Thackeray. [1913 Webster] …
59Hurl — Hurl, n. 1. The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. Congreve. [1913 Webster] 2. Tumult; riot; hurly burly. [Obs.] Knolles. [1913 Webster] 3. (Hat Manuf.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a… …
60Hurried — Hurry Hur ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hurried}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Hurrying}.] [OE. horien; cf. OSw. hurra to whirl round, dial. Sw. hurr great haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly burly, MHG. hurren to hurry, and E. hurr, whir to hurry; all… …
