tintamarre
noun
tin·ta·marre
variants or less commonly tintamar
¦tintə¦mär
plural -s
: a great confused noise : uproar, din
I did not know … though I did guess by such a tintamarre and cough and sneeze
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Word History
Etymology
French tintamarre, from Middle French, from tinter to ring (from Latin tinitare, frequentative of tinnire to ring) + -amarre, of unknown origin
- one's heart out
- one's heart sinks
- one's house in order
- one's inner self
- one's keep
- one's kind of
- one's level best
- one's nose is to the grindstone
- one's old self
- one's own man
- one's real self
- one's self
- one's temper flares
- one's true self
- one's true/real self
- one's very own
- one's waking hours
- one's waking hours/moments
- one's waking moments
- one-a-cat
- one-and-thirty
- one-arm
- one-arm bandit
- one-armed bandit
- one-bagger