Usually means: Noisy, chaotic, and tumultuous commotion.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word hurly-burly:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. hurly-burly: Merriam-Webster
  2. hurly-burly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hurly-burly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hurly-burly, hurly-burly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hurly-Burly, hurly-burly: Wordnik
  6. hurly-burly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hurly-burly: Wiktionary
  8. hurly-burly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hurly-burly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hurly-burly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Hurly-burly, hurly-burly: Dictionary.com
  12. hurly-burly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Hurly-Burly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Hurly-burly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. hurly-burly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Hurly-burly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. hurly-burly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. HURLY-BURLY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  19. Hurly-burly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. hurly-burly: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hurly-burly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hurly-burly: A Word A Day

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of hurlyburly [(archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.]

Similar:
hustle-bustle, hurry-scurry, hub-bub, rough and tumble, bruhaha, whirlygig, dust-up, turfwar, whir, touzle, more...

Opposite:
calm, serenity, tranquility, peace
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Similar:
hustle-bustle, hurry-scurry, hub-bub, rough and tumble, bruhaha, whirlygig, dust-up, turfwar, whir, touzle, more...

Opposite:
calm, serenity, tranquility, peace



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