HURRY-DURRY

HURRY-DURRY

ADJ.
of the weather: rough, boisterous, windy, rainy;
hence, impatient, irritable ...1672 nautical obs.
 
NOUN
tumult, confusion, bustle caused by excitement ...1732 obs. rare
 
INTERJECTION
an exclamation of impatience or indignation ...1682 obs.
 
ETYMOLOGY
reduplicated extension of 'hurry'
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1672- see Example below
 
EXAMPLE
"...the wind was at east and blew hard and, as the seamen terme it, was thick hurry durry weather, which is wind and raine."
 
From: Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1672
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889
• A Supplementary English Glossary, O. Davies, T. Lewis, 1881
• A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words, A.L. Mayhew, 1914
• Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present,
​John S. Farmer, W.E. Henley, 1891-1902