单词 | flurry |
释义 | flurryn. 1. a. A sudden agitation of the air, a gust or squall. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of ghosteOE blasta1000 blas?c1225 ragec1405 blorec1440 flaw1513 thud1513 flaga1522 fuddera1522 flake1555 flan1572 whid?1590 flirta1592 gust1594 berry1598 wind-catch1610 snuff1613 stress1625 flash1653 blow1655 fresh1662 scud1694 flurry1698 gush1704 flam1711 waff1727 flawer1737 Roger's Blasta1825 flaff1827 slat1840 scart1861 rodges-blast1879 huffle1889 slap1890 slammer1891 Sir Roger1893 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 128 (margin) Flurries from the Hills carry Men and Oxen down the Precipice. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. i. 6 The Boat was overset by a sudden Flurry from the North. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 Nov. (1946) 197 Wind..dies away in the morning, and blows in flurries rather contrary. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Dec. 1/3 You may watch ‘catspaws’ and ‘flurries’ on their rapid way. b. Chiefly U.S. A sharp and sudden shower; a sudden rush (of birds). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > an assemblage of things fluttering flurry1828 scurry1839 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > shower > sudden flash1653 scat17.. volley1737 blirt1810 flurry1828 brash1849 skift1947 the world > animals > birds > flight > [noun] > bird that flies > sudden rush of flush1596 flurry1868 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 91 Occasional flurries of snow. 1868 J. R. Lowell First Snowfall 15 The sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains vii. 223 Spat upon by flurries of rain. 2. a. A sudden commotion or excitement; perturbation, nervous agitation, flutter, hurry. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > disorderly huddle1606 flurrya1774 fudder1866 spuffling1893 1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 82 A man is never more expos'd to temptation than in the flurry of his passions. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 414 If we exert our endeavours, not in a fright and a flurry, but with a calm steady determination, we [etc.]. 1836 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1866) III. 94 I cannot tell you how happy I was to..leave behind me the hurry and worry and flurry of the city. 1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation II. 190 ‘That's sure to be the upshot of flurries and hurries and frights.’ b. The death-throes of a dying whale. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes > of whale flurry1823 1823 J. F. Cooper Pilot xvii He's going into his flurry. 1882 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 18 Mar. 7/3 Unless you should be struck by the tail of a frantic cetacean during the ‘flurry’ or slaughter. c. A sudden burst of activity (in the stock-market). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > traffic in stocks and shares > (sudden or great) activity high change1656 movement1847 flurry1876 boomlet1880 1876 Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 129 The prospect of a flurry in stocks..is sure to strip the island of visitors. 1907 E. S. Field Six-cylinder Courtship 80 A column..sandwiched in between The Latest Armenian Atrocities and the Unprecedented Flurry in Chewing Gum. 1971 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 14 A flurry of speculative activity saw BSA 3 up at 26p. Compounds flurry-scurry n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun] fever1340 motiona1398 quotidian?a1439 rufflea1535 commotion1581 fret1582 hurry1600 puddering1603 tumultuousnessa1617 trepidation1625 feverishness1638 boilingc1660 fermentationc1660 tumult1663 ferment1672 stickle1681 fuss1705 whirl1707 flurry1710 sweat1715 fluster1728 pucker1740 flutter1741 flustration1747 flutteration1753 tremor1753 swithera1768 twitteration1775 state1781 stew1806 scrow1808 tumultuating1815 flurrification1822 tew1825 purr1842 pirr1856 tête montée1859 go1866 faff1874 poultry flutter1876 palaver1878 thirl1879 razzle-dazzle1885 nervism1887 flurry-scurry1888 fikiness1889 foment1889 dither1891 swivet1892 flusterment1895 tither1896 overwroughtness1923 mania1925 stumer1932 tizzy1935 two and eight1938 snit1939 tizz1953 tiswas1960 wahala1966 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 May 1/2 So utterly and hopelessly incomprehensible does your recent flurry-scurry appear to the enlightened foreigner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flurryv. 1. transitive. To bewilder or confuse as by haste or noise; to agitate, ‘put out’. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] bewhapec1320 mara1350 blunder?a1400 mada1425 to turn a person's brainc1440 astonish1530 maskc1540 dare1547 bemud1599 bedazea1605 dizzy1604 bemist1609 muddify1647 lose1649 bafflea1657 bewildera1680 bother?1718 bemuse1734 muddlea1748 flurrya1757 muzz1786 muzzle1796 flusker1841 haze1858 bemuddle1862 jitter1932 giggle- a1757 E. Moore Envy & Fort. 71 ‘Well may you wonder To see me thus flurry'd.’ 1771 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1988) I. This flurried me violently, insomuch, that my memory failed me. 1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley i. 11 How you flurry yourself for nothing. 1886 G. R. Sims Ring o' Bells xvi. 283 He..flurried the other performers, and seemed only in a hurry to..quit the stage. 2. intransitive. To flutter down in sudden or gusty showers. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > flutter flickerc1000 flackerc1400 flitter1483 quitter1513 flack1567 fleck1567 flusker1660 flaffer17.. flit1700 skimmer1824 flutter1853 volitate1866 flurry1883 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > snow or fall (of snow) [verb (intransitive)] > fall in specific manner flake1513 spit1860 flurry1883 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > fall [verb (intransitive)] > drop or fall vertically > like flakes of snow snowa1400 flakea1851 flurry1883 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry hiec1250 skelta1400 hasty?a1425 hasten1534 festinate1652 to look sharp1680 to make play1799 hurry-scurry1809 to tumble up1826 crowd1838 rush1859 hurry1871 to get a move on1888 hurry and scurry1889 to buck up1890 to get a hump on1892 to get a wiggle on1896 to shake a leg1904 to smack it about1914 flurry1917 to step on it (her)1923 to make it snappy1926 jildi1930 to get an iggri on1946 ert- 1883 H. H. Kane in Harper's Mag. Nov. 947/2 The music seemed..to flurry, like snow-flakes, from the ceiling. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story vii The petals of the cherry were flurrying down like snow in every passing breeze. 1917 W. Owen Let. 13 Dec. (1967) 515 I was flurrying round like any Mrs. Smith de Smith when ‘Company’ is expected. 1920 D. Lindsay Voy. Arcturus xii. 145 The freezing wind, flurrying across the desert, drove the fine particles of sand painfully against their faces. Derivatives ˈflurried adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adjective] bemazed?c1225 madc1300 maskedc1300 marreda1375 astoniedc1386 adasedc1450 astonished1513 moping1566 bewandered1574 dizzy1579 westy1598 night-wildered1652 disconcerted1686 muzzy1723 flustered1743 bewildered1760 flurried1775 muddled1790 thought-bewildered1796 bedazzled1805 muggy1824 mused1842 moony1847 beflustered1864 bemused1880 snarled1881 bedazed1882 bemuddled1883 disoriented1957 disorientated1959 wifty1973 the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated high-wrought1579 feverous1587 tremulous1611 feverish1637 overwound1640 gestient1644 overwrought1648 twittering1648 fevereda1657 tumultuous1667 wrought-up1688 flustered1743 trepidatinga1774 flurried1775 wrought1778 riled1825 tête montée1825 worked up1831 tumultuating1854 trepidant1891 tremorous1897 wroughted1905 goosy1906 hotted-up1923 steamed1923 spooky1926 antsy-pantsy1944 antsy1950 agitato1964 amped1967 wired1970 1775 F. Burney Let. May in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 133 But she was flurried flurried. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. 235 To calm her flurried spirits. 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury II. iii. 42 Titus immediately returned the salute with flurried courtesy. ˈflurriedly adv. in a flurried manner. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adverb] feverishly1678 tremulously1736 nervously1816 flutteringly1819 flurriedly1834 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adverb] > in a confused manner perturbedly1654 disconcertedly1823 hazily1830 muddlingly1830 flurriedly1834 bewilderedly1846 bemusedly1896 muzzily1903 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 35 137 Running flurriedly out. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 208 What are you saying? he asked flurriedly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1698v.a1757 |
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