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prettygoodwordgarboil (GAHR-boil) - (arch.) n., confusion, tumult, uproar.
I think the main reason this highly Elizabethan word (first appearing in 1548, from Middle French garbouil, from Old Italian garbuglio, perhaps from Latin bullīre, to boil) survives at all is because it's used by Shakespeare, in Tony and Cleo:
---L.
I think the main reason this highly Elizabethan word (first appearing in 1548, from Middle French garbouil, from Old Italian garbuglio, perhaps from Latin bullīre, to boil) survives at all is because it's used by Shakespeare, in Tony and Cleo:
Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
The garboils she awaked
---L.
