The Wonderful World Of Words, 2/19/17
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Traffic GARBOIL, Dahka
DEFINITION:
Noun
A confused or disorderly state. Chaos
ETYMOLOGY/ORIGIN:
First known use, 1548
From Medieval French, "garbouil" and/or Old Italian, "garbuglio"
PRONUNCIATION:
gar·boil \ˈgär-ˌbȯi(-ə)l
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SYNONYMS:
Uproar
Tumult
ANTONYMS:
Tranquil
Harmony
Peace
SCRABBLE SCORE:
10
USAGE/EXAMPLES:
At any sign of GARBOIL, the sophy evidenced momism.
--Doug Pike, Cartoonist
I wouldn't mind if she weren't a prominent person of the kind that's always in some sort of GARBOIL.
--My Favorite Fantasy Story
by Martin H. Greenberg, 2000
'Art Monster', Carlos Diaz, http://lyricslifelove.thoughts.com/posts/chaotic-art
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Really quite onomatopoeic is 'garboil' - I shall try to find a storage space for it in my diminishing memory reserves. The word is, at least, very expressive! Voted as ever!