hurly
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)li/
Audio (southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)li
Etymology 1
Compare French hurler (“to howl”). See also hurlyburly.
Noun
hurly
- (obsolete) noise; confusion; uproar[1]
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- […] that, with the hurly, death itself awakes.
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Noun
hurly (plural hurlies)
- (Scotland) A wheelbarrow.
Related terms
- hurl
- hurtle
See also
terms probably etymologically unrelated
- hurlyburly
- hurly-hacket
References
- hurly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913