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hurly-burlies

hurly-burlies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hurly-burly.

Meaning of hurly-burly

Verb

hurly-burly (third-person singular simple present hurly-burlies, present participle hurly-burlying, simple past and past participle hurly-burlied)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, uncommon) To make an uproar or commotion.

Questions about hurly-burlies

What is hurly-burlies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hurly-burlies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hurly-burly.

Words near hurly-burlies in the dictionary

  1. hurlwind
  2. hurlwinds
  3. hurly
  4. hurly hakkat
  5. hurly-burlied
  6. hurly-burlies
  7. hurly-burly
  8. hurly-burlying
  9. hurly-hacket
  10. hurly-hackets
  11. hurlyburlies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurly-burlies (page history and authors); hurly-burly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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