TUMULT, TUMULTUOUS, TUMULTUOUSLY
ADJECTIVES
► BABYLONICAL disorderly, tumultuous → 1547 obs.
► FREMESCENT becoming murmurous, roaring; growing noisy and tumultuous; riotous, raging → 1837
► HURLY-BURLY attended with commotion, tumult, or disturbance; tumultuous → 1598
► TURBULOUS turbulent, causing disturbance or commotion; tumultuous, unruly, violent → 1527 obs.
► TURMOILOUS full of turmoil or tumult; disturbed, troubled → 1553 obs.
► TURMOILY full of turmoil or tumult; disturbed, troubled → 1877
ADVERBS
► HELTER-SKELTER ► HILTER-SKILTER in disordered haste; confusedly, tumultuously, pell-mell → L16 sl.
► HURLY-BURLY in commotion, tumultuously; in confusion → c1550 obs.
► HURRY-BURRY with extra hurry; in confusion; tumultuously → 1791 Sc.
NOUNS
► BEAR-GARDEN a scene of strife, disorder, and tumult; a rude, turbulent assembly → 1743
► BEAR-PLAY rough tumultuous behaviour → 1883
► BOBBERY a noise, disturbance, tumult; a fuss, row, uproar; a squabble, quarrel, dispute, altercation → 1816 Eng. dial. & sl.
► BROIL an angry quarrel or struggle; a disturbance, a tumult → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► BURLY a hurly-burly, a commotion, tumult, strife, uproar, turmoil, confusion → 1835
► CAPPEROUSE ► CAPROUSE a great noise, uproar, confusion, tumult → 1888 Eng. dial.
► CATOUSE ► KATOUSE ► KATOWSE an uproar, a commotion, a tumult, rumpus, row, disturbance → 1859 Amer. dial.
► DIRDUM ► DURDUM noise, uproar; tumultuous proceedings; a noisy quarrel → 1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FARIE ► FARY a state of tumult or consternation → 1500-20 Sc. obs.
► FEASTER a fluster, a tumult → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FEERY ► FERIE tumult, noise, bustle, confusion; rage, passion → 1715 Sc.
► FEERY-FARRY a bustle, a tumult; a state of excitement, disorder, confusion → 1535 Sc. obs.
► FIRLY-FARLY confusion, tumult → 19C Eng. dial.
► GARBOIL confusion, disturbance, disorder, tumult, uproar; a brawl, hubbub, commotion → 1548 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HABBLE confusion, tumult, uproar, disturbance, hubbub → 1795 Sc.
► HABBLE-GABBLE a tumult, an uproar → 1956 Sc.
► HABBLE-HOBBLE a tumult, an uproar → 1900 Sc.
► HACK AND SWEEP a tumult, an uproar; a fight; a commotion → 1902 Sc.
► HAIKE ► HAKE a stir, turmoil, tumult → 1870 Eng. dial.
► HANG-MAD riotous tumult; boisterous frolic → 19C Eng. dial.
► HASH a noise, tumult; strife, rioting; ribald talk, nonsense → 1801 Sc.
► HUBBABOO a confused crying or yelling; a tumult, turmoil → 1596
► HUBBISTEW a hubbub, stir, tumult; a flurry, excitement → 1898 Sc.
► HUBBLESHOW a tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar, hubbub → 1525 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HUBBLE-SHUBBLE commotion, uproar, tumult, disturbance, confusion → c1550 obs.
► HURLY commotion, tumult, uproar; strife → 1600
► HURLY-BURLY commotion, tumult, strife, uproar, turmoil, confusion → 1440
► HURRY-BURRY confusion or bustle caused by excitement; tumult → ?a1800 Sc.
► HURRY-DURRY tumult, confusion, bustle caused by excitement → 1732 obs.
► LARUM a tumultuous noise; a hubbub, an uproar → a1533
► LEERIE din and strife; tumult, wrangling → 1879 Sc.
► MEDLEY a commotion, tumult → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MUTINE popular disturbance or tumult; rebellion, mutiny → 1560 obs.
► MUTINEWE popular disturbance or tumult; rebellion, mutiny → 1550 obs.
► MUTINY discord, contention, tumult; a dispute, a quarrel → 1567 obs.
► QUOIL a stir, a tumult, a turmoil, a noisy disturbance; fuss, bustle → 1798 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RABBLEMENT confusion, disturbance, or tumult like that of a rabble; riotous conduct → 1590
► REEK a state of hot anger; a disturbance, a tumult → 1904 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REILIEBOGIE confusion, a state of tumult or disorder → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► RIBBLE-RABBLE a tumultuous crowd or array of people; a disorderly assemblage; a mob; the scum of society; a great confusion → 1635
► SCARNACH ► SCARNOCH a noisy tumult → 1825 Sc.
► SCOUR a noise, a tumult → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCROINOCH a shrill cry; a yell; a noise, a tumult; a noisy fuss → 1790 Sc.
► SHITSTORM a frenetic or disastrous event; a commotion, a tumult → 1948 sl., orig. US
► TIRPEIL ► TIRPELL a broil, an encounter, a tumult → c1330 obs.
► TUMOIL a tumult, a turmoil → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UBBUBBOO ► UBUBBOO a confused crying or yelling; a tumult; turmoil → 1702
► UPSCUDDLE ► UPSCUTTLE a noisy quarrel; a disturbance, a tumult → 1904 Amer. dial.
NOUNS – PERSON
► DISTURBANT one who disturbs or interferes with peace or quiet; one who causes tumult or disorder → 1865
► TUMULTER a person who stirs up a tumult, a rioter → 1589 obs.
VERBS
► SET THE HEATHER ON FIRE to raise a disturbance, to excite a tumult → 1817 Sc.
► TAKE A HEAD to make insurrection; to raise a tumult → 1678 obs.
► TUMULTUATE to stir up a tumult; to make a disturbance or commotion; to become tumultuous, turbulent, agitated or restless → 1611