1893. St. James's Gazette, xxvii., 4076, p. 4. While all London was making holiday, Paris was engaged in a hurly-burly of a very different kind.
Hurra's-nest, subs. (nautical).—The
utmost confusion; everything
topsy-turvy. For synonyms, see
Sixes and Sevens.
1840. R. H. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast, ch. ii. Everything was pitched about in grand confusion. There was a complete hurrah's nest, as the sailors say, 'everything on top and nothing at hand.'
1869. Mrs. Stowe, Old Townsfolks, ch. iv. You've got our clock all to pieces, and have been keeping up a perfect hurrah's nest in our kitchen for three days. Do either put that clock together or let it alone.
Hurrah in Hell. Not to care
a single hurrah in hell,
verb. phr. (American).—To be
absolutely indifferent.
1893. Harold Frederic, National Observer, IX., 1 Apr., p. 493, col. 2. I don't care a single hurrah in sheol.
Hurry, subs. (musical).—A quick
passage on the violin, or a roll on
the drum, leading to a climax
in the representation.
1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 66. The wrongful heir comes in to two bars of quick music (technically called a hurry).
Hurry-curry, subs. (obsolete).—See
quot.
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (Grosart, Works, v. 267). The was so in his humps upon it . . . that he had thought to have tumbled his hurrie currie, or can, into the sea.
Hurry-durry, adj. (old).—Rough;
boisterous; impatient of
counsel or control.
1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, i., 1. 'Tis a hurrydurry blade.
Hurrygraph, subs. (American).—A
hastily written letter.
1861. Independent, 31 July. I must close this hurrygraph, which I have no time to review.
Hurry-whore, subs. (old).—A
walking strumpet.
1630. Taylor, Wks. And I doe wish with all my heart, that the superfluous number of all our hyreling hackney carryknaves, and hurry-whores, with their makers and maintainers, were there, where they might never want continuall imployment.
Husband's-boat, subs. (common)—The
Saturday boat to Margate
during the summer season.
c. 1867. Vance, Broadside Ballad. The Husband's Boat.'
1887. Murray, in New Eng. Dict., Pt. III., p. 956, c. 3. Waiting at Margate Pier for the husband's boat on Saturday afternoon.
Husband's-supper. To warm
the husband's supper, verb.
phr. (common).—To sit before
the fire with lifted skirts. Fr.,
faire chapelle.
Husband's-tea, subs. (common).—Weak
tea; water bewitched
(q.v.).
Hush, verb. (old).—To kill.—Grose.
Hush-money, subs. (old: now
recognised).—Money paid for
silence, to quash a case, or stay a
witness; a bribe; blackmail.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 26. I expect hush-money to be regularly sent for every folly or vice any one commits in this whole town.
1713. Guardian, No. 26. A poor chambermaid has sent in ten shillings out of her hush-money, to expiate her guilt of being in her mistress's secret.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
