flurry
/ˈflʌ.ɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.11 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
noun
An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
Example Sentences
- "a flurry of wind"
- "When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform."
- ""I missed the beast in my flurry, but he dropped you all right and was off like a streak.""
- "With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze."
- "1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments” These [argument structure] modifications are important because they have provoked a flurry of investigation into argument structure operations of merger, demotion etc."
- "Higglety, pigglety, pop! The dog has eaten the mop; The pig's in a hurry, The cat's in a flurry, Higglety, pigglety, pop!"
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈflʌ.ɹi/
- British English: /ˈflʌ.ɹi/