hurly-burlyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Likely altered reduplication of hurling (“tumult”).

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名詞

hurlyburly (countable and uncountable, plural hurlyburlies)

1. (archaic) A noisy and disorderly tumult and confusion, especially as of battle.
   • 1550, Steuen Mierdman, 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 (date written), 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, [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

参考

• hurling and burling
• hustle and bustle
• hurluberlu

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