Flurry

Definition: Flurry

Flurry

Noun

1. A rapid bustling commotion.

2. A light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that); "he had to close the window against the flurries"; "there was a flurry of chicken feathers".

Verb

1. Move in an agitated or confused manner.

2. Cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Flurry" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a king of princes".

Date "flurry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonyms: Flurry

Activity

Movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget, fidgetiness; flurry; (haste).

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Haste

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Crosswords: Flurry

Books

• A Flurry of Angels: Angels in Literature (reference)

• Cat in the Dark: A Flurry of Feline Verse (reference)

• Chuck Jones: A Flurry of Drawings (Portraits of American Genius, No 3) (reference)

• Frosty the Snowman: A Flurry of Fun (reference)

• Hurry, Skurry and Flurry (reference)

  (more book examples)

The Hubble telescope has captured a flurry of star birth near the heart of the barred spiral ... Credit: NASA.

We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north

Health

The discovery by scientists that mosquitoes carried the disease unleashed a flurry of ambitious public health measures designed to stamp out malaria. (references)

Business

Despite the sudden flurry of activity in consumer e-Commerce, security remains a concern among local consumers. (references)

A flurry of discontinued titles has flooded the market, and retailers profit margins have suffered as a result. (references)

The demand in China for American made information technology is growing at a rapid pace. Last year, a flurry of Y2K-related activities created a window of opportunity for sales of legal upgrades and replacements. (references)

Economic History

Senegal

There is a flurry of newspapers published regularly in Senegal, but the reading public is relatively limited and confined to Dakar. (references)

Guinea

In mid-1996, in response to the coup attempt and a faltering economy, President Conté appointed a new government as part of a flurry of reform activity. (references)

North Korea

There was a brief flurry of negotiations on co-hosting the 1988 Seoul Olympics, which ended in failure and was followed by the 1987 KAL flight 858 bombing. (references)

Travel

Czech Rep

An attempt to take the city by storm with a flurry of quick meetings and barrage of e-mails is more likely to arouse suspicion than business. (references)

Expressions using "flurry": don't flurry yourself! ♦ put in a flurry ♦ snow flurry. Additional references.

Albanian

trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, dust, elaboration, fidget, fluster, flutter, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), stuhi (flaw, gale, hurricane, storm, tempest, thunderstorm), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, feeling, fidget, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), shkulm ere (blast, blow, flaw, gust, squall), reshje e lehtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هبة الريح, ‏تقلب قصير, ‏تساقط ثلج شديد, ‏إهتياج (access, ado, agitation, bother, bustling, commotion, delirium, dither, ebullience, effervescence, excitation, exciting, ferment, fermentation, fuss, great rage, in a state, ramp, rampage, sensation, stir, willies), ‏إهتاج (be agitated, be excited, be nervous, be upset, boil, effervesce, ferment, flutter, fuss, seethe, simmer), ‏إنفعال (delirium, dither, effervescence, emotion, excitement, furor, impression, passivity, poignancy, redness, temper, thrill, tizzy), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flutter, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏إضطرب (flicker, simmer, waver), ‏أثار (aggravate, arouse, awaken, bestir, burn, chafe, elicit, engage, evoke, exacerbate, exalt, excite, fan, ferment, foment, fray, frazzle, fret, fuss, gall, get, gravel, gripe, heat, impassion, inflame, infuriate, inspire, instigate, irritate, itch, jog, jostle, kindle, madden, move, outrage, pique, remnant, rile, rouse, sour, stimulate, switch on, tease, thrill, touch off, transport, trigger, trouble, turn on, unsettle, urge, vex, whet, whip, work). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суматоха (bustle, commotion, helter-skelter, hurry, mix up, perturbation, pother, rumpus, stirabout), смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, rattle, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), тревога (agitation, alarm, alert, anxiety, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, fluster, inquietude, perturbation, trepidation, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worriment, worry), кратко оживление в търговията, кратко преваляване, вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pother, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), внезапна вихрушка, подухване на вятър. (various references)

Chinese 

慌张 (Flurries). (various references)

Czech

závan vìtru, rozruch (agitation, backwash, excitement, fermentation, flap, fuss, hullabaloo, kick up, stir), rozèilení (anger, exasperation, excitement, getting the nerves), metelice. (various references)

Finnish

vilske (bustle), vihuri (gale, gust of wind), touhu (bustle, fuss), hyörinä (bustle, hurry). (various references)

French

rafale. (various references)

German

windstoß (blast, gust), nervosität (jumpiness, nervousness, nerviness). (various references)

Greek 

ξέσπασμα (burst, outbreak, outburst), νιφάσ (flake, snow flake), μπουρίνι (bowline, gust of wind, squall, temper tantrum), φύσημα (blast), αναστάτωση (disruption), αναταραχή (commotion), ταράσσω (abash, agitate, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flutter, jar, roil, ruffle, shock, stir), ταραχή (riot, trepidation). (various references)

Hebrew 

התרגשות (emotion, excitement, flutter, stir), סערה (assault, excitement, gale, gust, storm, tempest). (various references)

Hungarian

széllökés (squall, blow), izgalom (excitement, fluster, thrill), szélroham (squall, flaw, gust). (various references)

Italian

folata di vento (gust), tempesta (storm, tempest), scroscio (peal, roar, salvo, shower), raffica (gust), nervosismo (nervousness), agitazione (agitation, commotion), acquazzone improvviso. (various references)

Manx

sheidag (draught of air, puff), raishtey (flurry of snow). (various references)

Norwegian

vindstøt (gust), kave. (various references)

Pig Latin

urryflay.(various references)

Portuguese

perturbar (disquiet, perturb), perturbação (perturbation), pé-de-vento (gale), excitar (excite), excitação (stimulus), embasbacar (gape, mope), confundir (confuse, puzzle), atrapalhar (confuse, puzzle), aguaceiro (shower), agitar (stir, wave), agitação (agitation, commotion, tumult), afobação (fluster, panic). (various references)

Romanian

zãpãci (addle, bedazzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, daze, disconcert, dizzy, embrangle, entangle, gravel, jumble, knot, maze, muddle, muss, nonplus, pie, pose, shuffle), zãpãcealã (Babel, bewilderment, confusion, daze, discomfiture, disorder, distraction, entanglement, fuddle, haze, jumble, kerfuffle, mix up, muddle, topsy turvy), ului (amaze, astonish, astound, bewilder, confuse, daze, dazzle, dumbfound, flabbergast, stun), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, excitement, feeling, flap, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flutter, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), suflu puternic, rafalã (a burst of gun-fire, a fire of musketry, enfilade, flaw, gust, pelt, squall), nervozitate (fidgets, fret, impatience, jangleed nerves, jumpiness, nervousness), nelinişte (agitation, anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, ferment, fret, inquietude, perturbation, restlessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest, worry), dârdâi (chatter, flutter, quake, tremble), aiurealã (babble, confusion, fuss, hubbub, muss, raving, rigmarole, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery, twaddle), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flutter, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), agita (agitate, shake). (various references)

Russian 

снежинка (snowflake), спешка (haste, hurry, press, time pressure), сильный порыв ветра (blast), возбуждение (excitation, excitement), внезапный сильный ливень. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

užurbanost (ado, bustle, hastiness, hurry), nalet (attack, burst, dash, gust, rush, swoop). (various references)

Spanish

soplada (gust), ráfaga (gust, burst, squall), estado nervioso, aturdimiento (bewilderment, daze, fuddle), agitar (agitate), agitación (agitation, excitement). (various references)

Swedish

regnby (scud), nervös oro, förvirring (confusion, fluster). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ตื่นเต้น (electrify, hype, key up). (various references)

Turkish

telaşlandırmak (alarm, excite, fluster, fuss, hasten, put in a flurry, ruffle), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), sağanak (down pour, downpour, drench, hail, heavy shower, rainfall, shower, soak, soaker, spate, spatter, squall, torrent, waterspout), kısa ve şiddetli yağış, iki ayağını bir pabuca sokmak (fluster, hasten, rush smb. off one's feet), heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flush, flutter, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), herkesi saran ani his, bora (tempest), balinaların ölüm mücadelesi, ani rüzgâr (gust). (various references)

Ukrainian

шквал (flaw, gust, squall, thud), метушня (ado, alarm, bustle, buzz, clutter, fuss, helter-skelter, hurly burly, muss, razzle, razzle-dazzle, romps, rough and tumble, splutter, stir, stirabout, to-do, turmoil, whirl), збуджувати (actuate, agitate, amove, animate, arouse, electrify, elevate, exalt, excite, flush, incite, innervate, key up, kindle, pique, provoke, stimulate, tense, thrill, wake, whet, wind up, work up). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trận mưa tuyết bất chợt sự nhộn nhịp, sự xôn xao (fluster, perturbation, stir), sự náo động (excitement, ferment, fermentation, fluster, riot, tumultuousness, turmoil), cơn gió mạnh. (various references)

Welsh

ffwdan (ado, bustle, fuss). (various references)

flouren. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flurry": flurrying. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flurry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fiury, florry, flur, Fluria, flurrie, flury, frurry, furri, lury. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: furry.

-2 letters: furl, fury, ruly.

-3 letters: flu, fly, fry, fur.

+1 letter: furrily.

+3 letters: flurrying, formulary, prayerful.

+5 letters: butterflyer, fluorimetry, fluorometry, irrefutably, prayerfully, regardfully, regretfully, sorrowfully.