Where did the term hurly-burly come from?
Score: 4.8/5 (25 votes) Origin of hurly-burly 1520–30; alteration of hurling (and) burling, rhyming phrase based on hurling in its (now obsolete) sense of tumult, uproar.Where does the term hurly-burly come from?also hurlyburly, "commotion, tumult," 1530s, apparently an alteration of phrase hurling ...