flurried
adjective
[ ˈflʌrɪd ]
• agitated, nervous, or anxious.
• "Jack was never flurried"
Similar:
agitated,
flustered,
ruffled,
in a panic,
worked up,
beside oneself,
overwrought,
perturbed,
frantic,
in a flap,
in a state,
in a twitter,
in a fluster,
in a dither,
all of a dither,
all of a lather,
in a tizz/tizzy,
in a tiz-woz,
in a (flat) spin,
having kittens,
in a twit,
flurry
verb
• (especially of snow or leaves) be moved in small swirling masses by sudden gusts of wind.
• "gusts of snow flurried through the door"
Similar:
swirl,
whirl,
eddy,
billow,
gust,
blast,
blow,
rush,
wind,
churn,
swish,
spin,
twist,
spurt,
surge,
seethe,
stream,
flow,
puff,
squall,
squirt,
boil,
Origin:
late 17th century: from obsolete flurr ‘fly up, flutter, whirr’ (imitative), probably influenced by hurry.
