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Garboil   Listen
noun
Garboil  n.  Tumult; disturbance; disorder. (Obs.)






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"Garboil" Quotes from Famous Books



... last hero who died for their ideas, but not, in himself, the only 'lawful minister' between Tweed and Cape Wrath. 'Other times, other manners.' All the Kirks are perfectly loyal; now none persecutes; interference with private life, 'Kirk discipline,' is a vanishing minimum; and, but for this recent 'garboil' (as our old writers put it) we might have said that, under differences of nomenclature, all the Kirks are united at last, in the only union worth having, that of peace and goodwill. That union may be restored, let us hope, by good temper and common ...
— Historical Mysteries • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Garboil" :   commotion, tumultuousness, kerfuffle, flutter, tumult, hoo-ha, disturbance, hoo-hah, combustion, to-do, uproar, hurly burly



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