'Flurry' definitions:
Definition of 'flurry'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
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" [syn: flurry, snow flurry]
verb
Move in an agitated or confused manner
verb
Cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her" [syn: confuse, flurry, disconcert, put off]
Definition of 'Flurry'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Flurry'
From: GCIDE
- Flurry \Flur"ry\, n.; pl. Flurries. [Prov. E. flur to ruffle.]
- 1. A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A light shower or snowfall accompanied with wind. [1913 Webster]
- Like a flurry of snow on the whistling wind. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. [1913 Webster]
- The racket and flurry of London. --Blakw. Mag. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The violent spasms of a dying whale. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flurry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- activity,
- addle,
- addle the wits,
- ado,
- agitate,
- agitation,
- air speed,
- asking price,
- avalanche,
- ball up,
- bearish prices,
- beat,
- beat up,
- becloud,
- bedazzle,
- befuddle,
- befuddlement,
- bewilder,
- bewilderment,
- bid price,
- blast,
- blizzard,
- blood rain,
- blow,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- blustering,
- boastfulness,
- bobbery,
- boil,
- boiling,
- book value,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bravado,
- brouhaha,
- bug,
- bullish prices,
- bullying,
- burst,
- bustle,
- call price,
- celerity,
- chaos,
- churn,
- churn up,
- closing price,
- cloud,
- commotion,
- confuse,
- confusion,
- conturbation,
- convulse,
- crystal,
- dash,
- daze,
- dazzle,
- decline,
- disarrange,
- discombobulate,
- discombobulation,
- discomfit,
- discomfiture,
- discompose,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertion,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorganize,
- disorient,
- disorientation,
- dispatch,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distract,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- drive,
- driven snow,
- drizzle,
- ebullience,
- ebullition,
- eddy,
- effervescence,
- electrify,
- embarrassment,
- embroilment,
- entangle,
- evening mist,
- excite,
- excitement,
- expedition,
- face value,
- fall,
- fanfaronade,
- fastness,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fermentation,
- fever,
- feverishness,
- fidgetiness,
- fidgets,
- fit,
- fixed price,
- flake,
- flap,
- flash price,
- flaw,
- flight,
- flit,
- flummox,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- flutteration,
- flutteriness,
- fog,
- foment,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- furore,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- galvanize,
- gout of rain,
- granular snow,
- ground speed,
- gust,
- haste,
- haze,
- hectoring,
- helter-skelter,
- high,
- hubbub,
- hullabaloo,
- hurly-burly,
- hurry,
- hurry-scurry,
- hustle,
- igloo,
- inquietude,
- instantaneousness,
- intimidation,
- issue par,
- issue price,
- jar,
- jitters,
- jolt,
- jumble,
- jumpiness,
- knots,
- lightning speed,
- low,
- maelstrom,
- malaise,
- mantle of snow,
- market price,
- market value,
- maze,
- mess,
- miles per hour,
- mist,
- misty rain,
- mix up,
- mizzle,
- mogul,
- moider,
- moil,
- moisture,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- nerviness,
- nervosity,
- nervousness,
- nominal value,
- offering price,
- opening price,
- outburst,
- paddle,
- par,
- par value,
- parity,
- patter,
- pell-mell,
- perplex,
- perplexity,
- perturb,
- perturbate,
- perturbation,
- pitter-patter,
- pother,
- precipitation,
- price,
- promptitude,
- promptness,
- provoke,
- pucker,
- put out,
- put price,
- quicken,
- quickness,
- quotation,
- quoted price,
- race,
- rain,
- raindrop,
- rainfall,
- rainwater,
- raise hell,
- rally,
- rant,
- rapidity,
- rattle,
- restlessness,
- rile,
- ripple,
- rock,
- rodomontade,
- roil,
- roughen,
- round pace,
- rout,
- row,
- rpm,
- ruffle,
- rumple,
- rush,
- scamper,
- Scotch mist,
- scramble,
- scud,
- scurry,
- scuttle,
- seethe,
- seething,
- settling price,
- shake,
- shake up,
- sheet of rain,
- shock,
- shower,
- shuffle,
- side,
- slosh,
- slush,
- snappiness,
- snow,
- snow banner,
- snow bed,
- snow blanket,
- snow blast,
- snow fence,
- snow flurry,
- snow roller,
- snow slush,
- snow squall,
- snow wreath,
- snow-crystal,
- snowball,
- snowbank,
- snowbridge,
- snowcap,
- snowdrift,
- snowfall,
- snowfield,
- snowflake,
- snowland,
- snowman,
- snowscape,
- snowshed,
- snowslide,
- snowslip,
- snowstorm,
- spasm,
- speed,
- speediness,
- splatter,
- splutter,
- sprinkle,
- spurt,
- sputter,
- stagger,
- stated value,
- stew,
- stimulate,
- stir,
- stir up,
- swagger,
- swashbucklery,
- sweat,
- swift rate,
- swiftness,
- swings,
- swirl,
- swirling,
- swivet,
- throw into confusion,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- trepidation,
- trepidity,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuation,
- turbidity,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- unease,
- unfrozen hydrometeor,
- unhinge,
- unquiet,
- unrest,
- unsettle,
- unsettlement,
- uproar,
- upset,
- velocity,
- vortex,
- wet,
- wet snow,
- whip,
- whip up,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- whirlwind,
- whisk,
- wind gust,
- work up,
- yeastiness