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Meaning of "hurly-burlies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HURLY-BURLIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HURLY-BURLIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hurly-Burlies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HURLY-BURLIES

hurds
hurdy-gurdies
hurdy-gurdy
hurl
hurlbarrow
hurler
hurley
hurley stick
hurling
hurly
hurly-burly
Huron
hurrah
hurray
hurricane
hurricane deck
hurricane lamp
hurricane season
hurricane warning
hurricane-force wind

WORDS THAT END LIKE HURLY-BURLIES

applies
as the crow flies
easterlies
families
ferlies
have someone by the short and curlies
northeasterlies
northerlies
northwesterlies
orderlies
pearlies
quarterlies
replies
short and curlies
southeasterlies
southwesterlies
supplies
to have sb by the short and curlies
Westerlies
yearlies

Synonyms and antonyms of hurly-burlies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HURLY-BURLIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hurly-burlies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hurly-burlies

Translation of «hurly-burlies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HURLY-BURLIES

Find out the translation of hurly-burlies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hurly-burlies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hurly-burlies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

喧嚣, burlies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Hurly- burlies
570 millions of speakers

English

hurly-burlies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hurly - burlies
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

هرج burlies -
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hurly - burlies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Hurly burlies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হৈচৈ-burlies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tohu- burlies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Burly-burlies
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hurly - burlies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

騒がしい- burlies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hurly - burlies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hurly-burlies
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hurly - burlies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hurly-burlies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्कश आवाज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hurly-burlies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hurly - burlies
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Hurly - burlies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hurly - burlies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Hurly - burlies
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hurly - burlies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

holderstebolder - burlies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hurly - burlies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Hurly - burlies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hurly-burlies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HURLY-BURLIES»

The term «hurly-burlies» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HURLY-BURLIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hurly-burlies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HURLY-BURLIES»

Discover the use of hurly-burlies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hurly-burlies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Generation
Hurly burlies. ALICE-VICTORIA. Lightning struck your house? How unfortunate. NANNY. Three steak and kidney pies, please . . . HEPZIBAH. Hurly burlies ain't no lightning. Whirly things. Helicopters. ALICE- VICTORIA. Everyone knows hurly  ...
‎1966
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Travels in Italy, between the years 1792 and 1798: ...
hurly-burlies,. (such. two paintings representing Genii with symbols relative to Bacchanlian feasts and ceremonies (It appears that the Ancients washed their hands before eating, and drank out of glasses) — Bacchus ! — Bacchus of the Indies ...
Mariana Starke, 1802
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Travels in Italy, between 1792 and 1798; containing a view ...
in. which. the. present. King. has. placed. swings,. and. wooden-horses,. or. hurly- burlies,. (such. two paintings representing Genii with symbols relative to Bacchanlian feasts and ceremonies (It appears that the Ancients washed their hands ...
Mariana Starke, 1802
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A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender
35 Elliott rented an apartment in the neighborhood and soon attracted a gang of boys called the "Hurly Burlies," with whom he boxed and shot craps. Elliott reported that the visits of this gang to his apartment would sometimes end in a brawl, ...
Laura McCall, Donald Yacovone, 1998
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Sceptres and Sciences in the Spains: Four Humanists and the ...
Alvarez's seditious plebs and phantasms, who try to wrest the sceptre from the king of the soul and of the body public, echo strongly and clearly Bacon's 'hurly burlies': Besides even the very workes of wisedome, (although amongst all humane ...
Ruth Hill, 2000
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Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the ...
36 Elliott rented an apartment in the neighborhood and soon attracted a gang of boys called the Hurly Burlies, with whom he boxed and shot craps. He reported that their visits to his apartment would sometimes end in a brawl, with the lights ...
Kevin P. Murphy, 2013
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Explaining the English Revolution: Hobbes and His Contemporaries
He held pantheistic, millenarian views while engaging in a hardheaded analysis of the causes of what he called "these national hurly burlies."6 Permanently curing these "hurly burlies" was his main concern. He demanded a total reformation ...
Mark Stephen Jendrysik, 2007
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The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote
who, in the turning of a straw, would dispatch the whole affair, and put every thing in sasety ; but, for. me, as I am a sinner to God, I understand nothing of those hurly-burlies !" " How ! my lord governor, cried another, what despondence is this ?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Tobias George Smollett, 1792
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Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science ...
... nothing in the world's hurly-burlies, sacred or profane. but the daft jargon and incoherent Kilkcnnycatness of the Tower of Babel, when masons and joiners. confounded into fiends, threw down their tools, and tore their hair, and foamed; and, ...
‎1857
10
Don Quixote de la Mancha
It were bettor to leave these matters to my master Don Quixote, who will dispatch them and secure us in a trice : for, as I am a sinner to God, I understand nothing at all of these hurly-burlies." " How ! sigfior governor?" said another; "what ...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1853

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HURLY-BURLIES»

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Review of Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
“With its hurly-burlies and nor'easters,” Barnett writes in a chapter about meteorologists and other weather watchers, “rain's eccentric ... «ScienceBlog.com, May 15»

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