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Flurry

noun

(pl. flurries)

A rapid active commotion. Synonyms: ado, bustle, fuss, hustle, stir.

A light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that). Synonym: snow flurry. "There was a flurry of chicken feathers"

verb

(past & past part. flurried; pres. part. flurrying)

Move in an agitated or confused manner.

Cause to feel embarrassment. Synonyms: confuse, disconcert, put off.

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"Flurry" Quotes from Famous Books

... passed and no explosion came. The fishcarts rattled down the Lane without hindrance. Except for the little flurry of excitement caused by the coming wedding at the Dean homestead the village life moved on its lazy, uneventful jog. I could not understand it. Why did Colton delay? He, whose one object in life was to have his own way, had it once more. ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... wind and flurry of cold rain rendered the concluding words of his tirade inaudible. It was as well, for Poppy was growing wicked, anger dominating every more humane ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... three days came in which a storm prevailed, and he did not go out at all. The snow began to fall late one afternoon. It was a regular flurry of large, soft, white flakes. In the morning it was still coming down with a high wind, and the papers announced a blizzard. From out the front windows one could see ...

— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... eye of the eccentric but accomplished Sir Thomas Urquhart; when a third lady, greatly younger than the others, and whom I had never seen before, came hurriedly tripping down the garden-walk, and, addressing the other two apparently quite in a flurry—"O, come, come away," she said, "I have been seeking you ever so long." "Is this you, L——?" was the staid reply: "Why, what now?—you have run yourself out of breath." The young lady was, I saw, very pretty; and though in her nineteenth ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads ...

— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland • Lewis Carroll

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