flurry
Other forms: flurried; flurries; flurrying
A light blowing swirl of snow that's just barely falling is a flurry. There might be a brief flurry or two at the beginning of the winter, with no real heavy snow until January.
You can describe a snow flurry, or a similarly swirling flurry of leaves or papers. When people act this way, rushing and fussing around, that's another kind of flurry. There might, for example, be a flurry of activity in the morning at your house as everyone hurries to get ready for the day. This sense of flurry is actually about a hundred years older than the snow meaning, which was first used in mid-1800's American English.
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a light brief snowfall and gust of wind (or something resembling that)“he had to close the window against the flurries”“there was a flurry of chicken feathers”synonyms: snow flurry
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a rapid active commotion
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an overwhelming number or amountsynonyms: barrage, deluge, flood, inundation, torrent
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move in an agitated or confused mannertype of:movemove so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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cause to feel embarrassment
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