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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a disorderly outburst or tumult;
- Example: "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
[syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hurly burly n 1: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to- do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

78 Moby Thesaurus words for "hurly burly": ado, agitation, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment, excitement, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, hassle, hubbub, hurry, hurry-scurry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, maelstrom, malaise, moil, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, pell-mell, perturbation, pother, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruffle, seethe, seething, stir, swirl, swirling, to-do, trepidation, trepidity, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, vortex, whirl, yeastiness