garboil

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bɔɪl/

Definition of garboil

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Disorder; uproar.
    “With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges of nacion against nacion & royalme against royalme.”
    “She’s dead, my queen: Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read The garboils she awaked; at the last, best: See when and where she died.”
    “M. d’Espagne could not forgive the Earl the death of his friend Sir Simon Burley: that was what began the garboil!”

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Etymology

From Old French garbouil, connected with Latin bullire (“to boil”).

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