英语词汇“hurly burly”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

A hurly burly is a hubbub or commotion. There’s the hurly burly of the schoolyard, or the hurly burly of a food fight. When there’s a hurly burly, things have gone totally higgledy-piggledy.

When something loud, unruly, or chaotic is going on, there’s a hurly burly. It’s an old-fashioned British word. In fact, a witch in Shakespeare’s Macbeth says, “When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.” A hurly burly isn’t always as serious as war, though, it’s an informal word for a disturbance, hoo-ha, kerfuffle, a real to-do, the kind that wouldn’t be welcome in a library. Any hurly burly is noisy in some way.

VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT

Colson Whitehead on the "Hurly-Burly" of Downtown Vegas

In "Loving Las Vegas" for Harper's Magazine, Colson Whitehead uses hurly burly when he writes about a summer stint splitting a Let's Go travel writing assignment among three friends.

It was 1991. We’d just been diagnosed as Generation X, and certainly we had all the symptoms, our designs and life plans as scrawny and undeveloped as our bodies.…We’d hit Domsey’s, the famous Brooklyn thrift store, before we left New York City. We required proper gear for our Vegas debut. Dead men’s spats, ill-fitting acrylic slacks and blazers with stiff fibers sticking out of the joints and seams. Roll up the sleeves of the sports jacket to find the brown stains corresponding to the previous owner’s track marks....We were about to get our first glimpse of the hurly-burly of downtown Vegas.

Hurly-Burly is a reduplicative word, meaning it's made up of two synonymous words linked in some phonetic way. Read Orin Hargraves's Bonbon Mots for more on reduplicative vocabulary including pooh-pooh, hoity-toity, willy-nilly, namby-pamby, dilly-dally, and wishy-washy.

Forgive yourself if even silently reading that list makes you feel like you're channeling a Victorian nursemaid's gentle chiding. As Hargraves points out, "a large proportion of English reduplications do indeed denote something trivial, nonsensical, disparaged, substandard, [or] silly."

There's nothing silly about hurly-burly's origin. In fact, it's brutal. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, hurling was a 14th century word meaning a "commotion, tumult," and "the hurling time" was a phrase used to describe the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, when, to object to a new tax, a man named Wat Tyler marched from Canterbury to London, where he was killed by servants of the King and had his head displayed on a pole over London Bridge.

In the 1530s, hurling was joined to burling to form hurlingburling, which was later shortened to hurly-burly, and — Braveheart associations worn away by time — stood ready and waiting for Colson Whitehead's thrift store-enhanced Vegas debut.

WORD FAMILY

hurly burly

USAGE EXAMPLES

Every few weeks the hurly burly of the Premier League gives way to a version of the same sport that operates at a snail’s pace.

The Guardian(Oct 13, 2016)

Hibs began to look accomplished amidst the hurly burly of the game.

BBC(May 04, 2016)

He's known for "Hurly Burly" and "Sticks and Bones," among other plays.

Seattle Times(Jul 30, 2014)

n a disorderly outburst or tumult

Syn|Hypo|Hyper

commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle, to-do

convulsion, turmoil, upheaval

a violent disturbance

earthquake

a disturbance that is extremely disruptive

incident

a public disturbance

splash, stir

a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event

storm, tempest

a violent commotion or disturbance

storm center, storm centre

a center of trouble or disturbance

garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar

a state of commotion and noise and confusion

combustion

a state of violent disturbance and excitement

disorder

a disturbance of the peace or of public order

单词	hurly burly
释义	hurly burly (once / 211060 pages) n A hurly burly is a hubbub or commotion. There’s the hurly burly of the schoolyard, or the hurly burly of a food fight. When there’s a hurly burly, things have gone totally higgledy-piggledy. When something loud, unruly, or chaotic is going on, there’s a hurly burly. It’s an old-fashioned British word. In fact, a witch in Shakespeare’s Macbeth says, “When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.” A hurly burly isn’t always as serious as war, though, it’s an informal word for a disturbance, hoo-ha, kerfuffle, a real to-do, the kind that wouldn’t be welcome in a library. Any hurly burly is noisy in some way. VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Colson Whitehead on the "Hurly-Burly" of Downtown Vegas In "Loving Las Vegas" for Harper's Magazine, Colson Whitehead uses hurly burly when he writes about a summer stint splitting a Let's Go travel writing assignment among three friends. It was 1991. We’d just been diagnosed as Generation X, and certainly we had all the symptoms, our designs and life plans as scrawny and undeveloped as our bodies.…We’d hit Domsey’s, the famous Brooklyn thrift store, before we left New York City. We required proper gear for our Vegas debut. Dead men’s spats, ill-fitting acrylic slacks and blazers with stiff fibers sticking out of the joints and seams. Roll up the sleeves of the sports jacket to find the brown stains corresponding to the previous owner’s track marks....We were about to get our first glimpse of the hurly-burly of downtown Vegas. Hurly-Burly is a reduplicative word, meaning it's made up of two synonymous words linked in some phonetic way. Read Orin Hargraves's Bonbon Mots for more on reduplicative vocabulary including pooh-pooh, hoity-toity, willy-nilly, namby-pamby, dilly-dally, and wishy-washy. Forgive yourself if even silently reading that list makes you feel like you're channeling a Victorian nursemaid's gentle chiding. As Hargraves points out, "a large proportion of English reduplications do indeed denote something trivial, nonsensical, disparaged, substandard, [or] silly." There's nothing silly about hurly-burly's origin. In fact, it's brutal. According to the Online Etymological Dictionary, hurling was a 14th century word meaning a "commotion, tumult," and "the hurling time" was a phrase used to describe the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, when, to object to a new tax, a man named Wat Tyler marched from Canterbury to London, where he was killed by servants of the King and had his head displayed on a pole over London Bridge. In the 1530s, hurling was joined to burling to form hurlingburling, which was later shortened to hurly-burly, and — Braveheart associations worn away by time — stood ready and waiting for Colson Whitehead's thrift store-enhanced Vegas debut. WORD FAMILY hurly burly USAGE EXAMPLES Every few weeks the hurly burly of the Premier League gives way to a version of the same sport that operates at a snail’s pace. The Guardian(Oct 13, 2016) Hibs began to look accomplished amidst the hurly burly of the game. BBC(May 04, 2016) He's known for "Hurly Burly" and "Sticks and Bones," among other plays. Seattle Times(Jul 30, 2014) n a disorderly outburst or tumult Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle, to-do convulsion, turmoil, upheaval a violent disturbance earthquake a disturbance that is extremely disruptive incident a public disturbance splash, stir a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event storm, tempest a violent commotion or disturbance storm center, storm centre a center of trouble or disturbance garboil, tumult, tumultuousness, uproar a state of commotion and noise and confusion combustion a state of violent disturbance and excitement disorder a disturbance of the peace or of public order
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