шуры-муры

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cher amour.

Possibly has some relationship with Dutch schorremorrie (“scums, thugs”), Low German schurrmurr (“chaos, disorder”) Turkish şur mur (“confusion”), Albanian shiri-miri/ciri-miri (“confusion”), Romani ciri-miri (“confusion”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʂurɨ ˈmurɨ]

Noun

шу́ры-му́ры • (šúry-múry) n (indeclinable) (colloquial)

  1. (colloquial) flirt, a thing going on, hanky-panky, slap and tickle
  2. (colloquial, by extension) secret negotiations
  3. (uncommon) hodgepodge, whatnot
    Synonyms: ерунда (jerunda), всячина (vsjačina)
  4. (dialectal) hidden compartment in a shoe or a heel
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