单词 | hurrah's nest |
释义 | > as lemmashurrah's nest 3. hurrah's nest: a confused or disorderly mass; a state of confusion or disorder. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > absence of arrangement > [noun] > a disorderly collection rabblea1398 hotchpotc1405 hotchpotchc1410 mishmashc1475 gaggle?1478 chaos?1550 humble-jumble1550 huddle1587 wilderness1594 lurry1607 hatterc1626 farragoa1637 bumble1648 higgledy-piggledy1659 jumble1661 clutter1666 hugger-mugger1674 litter1730 imbroglio1753 confusion1791 cludder1801 hurrah's nest1829 hotter1834 welter1857 muddle1863 splatter1895 shamble1926 1829 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 31 Jan. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. xi. 164 A queer-looking Dutchman, with a head like a ‘hurra's nest’. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ii. 10 Everything was pitched about in grand confusion. There was a complete' hurrah's nest'. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Hurra's Nest, a state of confusion. A woman's word. 1889 S. W. Mitchell in Cent. Mag. Aug. 503/1 The old lumberman pointed..to a ‘hurrah's nest’ (a mass of leaves left by a freshet in the crotch of the divergent branches of a bush) half-way up the slope—on it was coiled a large rattlesnake. < as lemmas |
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