flurry

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.