hurly-burly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.93 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Yaroslav went about his duties with a straight back and a firm, springy step, enjoying it all: the hurly-burly in Smolensk, getting the rustics into uniform, and, better still, the train journey."
- "His uncanny aptitude for math showed itself early. A teacher once sent young Dirac home with a set of problems designed to keep him occupied all evening and was shocked when he had solved them by the afternoon. Even as a boy, he preferred a life of contemplation to the hurly-burly of the schoolyard. When he was nine, his teachers at the Bishop Road School awarded him with a telling prize: a copy of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the fictional autobiography of a castaway marooned for twenty-eight years on a remote island."