英语词汇hurly-burly的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hurly-burly; hullabaloo. The famous “When the Hurley- burley’s done, When the Battaile’s lost, and wonne,” of Macbeth’s witches seems to support the old story that hurly-burly, an up- roar or noisy disturbance, derives from the excitement of burly men hurling spears in battle. But no proof of this exists. Neither does hurly-burly appear to have derived from hullabaloo, the Irish word for wailing at funerals, which now means any loud noise or uproar. The word may just be imitative of the howling of the wind—burly chosen to reduplicate hurly simply for the rhyme.

词汇	hurly-burly
词源	hurly-burly; hullabaloo. The famous “When the Hurley- burley’s done, When the Battaile’s lost, and wonne,” of Macbeth’s witches seems to support the old story that hurly-burly, an up- roar or noisy disturbance, derives from the excitement of burly men hurling spears in battle. But no proof of this exists. Neither does hurly-burly appear to have derived from hullabaloo, the Irish word for wailing at funerals, which now means any loud noise or uproar. The word may just be imitative of the howling of the wind—burly chosen to reduplicate hurly simply for the rhyme.
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