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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flurried/ˈflʌrid/
adjective agitated, nervous, or anxious.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
flurry/ˈflʌri/
noun (pl. flurries)
  • 1 a small swirling mass of snow, leaves, etc. moved by sudden gusts of wind.
  • 2 a sudden short period of commotion or excitement.

    ■ a number of things arriving suddenly and simultaneously.

verb (flurries, flurrying, flurried) move in flurries; swirl.
– origin C17: from obs. flurr ‘fly up, flutter, whirr’ (imitative), prob. influenced by hurry.



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