hurly burly

Questions about hurly burly

What does hurly burly mean?

hurly burly means "a disorderly outburst or tumult".

What is another word for hurly burly?

Close synonyms include disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, to-do. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hurly burly a common word?

hurly burly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.