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名詞

hurly-burly

1. Alternative spelling of hurlyburly
   • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 109:

     Yaroslav went about his duties with a straight back and a firm, springy step, enjoying it all: the hurly-burly in Smolensk, getting the rustics into uniform, and, better still, the train journey.

語源

A combination of hurling and burling. (This etymology is missing または incomplete. Please add to it, または discuss it at the 語源 scriptorium. Particularly: “Needs sourcing; see talk page.”)

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hurlyburly (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 hurlyburlies)

1. (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
   • 1550: Mierdman, Steuen, The market or fayre of usurers

     ...for nought is ceaſſed and gone already, what an hurlyburly (?) inconvenience ſhoulde followe or it maye be eaſely perceived.

   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i], page 131:

     1. When ſhall we three meet againe? / In Thunder, Lightning, or in Raine? / 2. When the Hurly-burley's done, / When the Battaile's loſt, and wonne.

   • c. 1933, “Twentieth-Century Blues”, performed by Noël Coward:

     Why is it that civilized humanity / Can make the world so wrong? / In this hurly-burly of insanity / Our dreams cannot last long