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garboil
[ gahr-boil ]
noun
Archaic.
- confusion.
garboil
/ ˈɡɑ˲úɔɪ±ô /
noun
- archaic.confusion or disturbance; uproar
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of garboil1
First recorded in 1540–50; from Middle French garbouil, from Old Italian garbuglio; further origin unknown
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of garboil1
C16: from Old French garbouil, from Old Italian garbuglio, ultimately from Latin ²ú³Ü±ô±ôÄ«°ù±ð to boil, hence, seethe with indignation
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Example Sentences
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While they had “nourished the garboil†in Scotland, fanned the flame, they professed to believe that France was aiming, through Scotland, at England.Â
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"Meantime, let your lordship consider what dispositions you are to make for this wretched girl who is the cause of all this garboil."
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Look here, and, at thy sovereign leisure, read The garboils she awak'd;at the last, best.
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And even had he done so it is odds none would have heard him, for the late calm was of a sudden turned to garboil.
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The fight is fought and lost; there's an end to the garboil.
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