A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1597-1598
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Hurle-burle, Hurle-brough. (Reduplicated f. Hurl n. or v.: cf. e.m.E. (1539) and also 17th c. Sc. (e.g. Melville Mem. 400; Z. Boyd Four Lett. Introd. 6; Polemo-Mid. 115; etc.) hurly-burly, hurlie-burlie, commotion, tumult, turmoil.) Only in the south Sc. place-name Caput de Hurleburle (a 1240 Reg. Neubotle 104), Hurle burle swyre. —a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) No. 600.
Little kens the wife that sits by the fire how the winde blowes cold in hurle burle [Carmichael Hurle Brough] swyre
