English
garboil
Garboil comes from Old French garbouil, from Latin bulliō ‘to boil’, and ultimately from bulla ‘bubble’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulla‘bubble’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulliōas bullire‘to boil’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400garbouil
- Englishearliest quotation 1548garboil
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulla‘bubble’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEbulliōas bullire‘to boil’
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400garbouil
- Englishearliest quotation 1548garboil
Earliest quotation: 1548, Nicholas Udall, London: Edward Whitchurch: “With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ‘to sound’
ball, bell, flame, bold, bald, blaze, bale, blush, blur, bleach, blizzard, bolster, sabha, blemish, phlegm, buller, phallus, blithe, phlox, blain, bleat, bolas, 71 more
through Latin bulla ‘bubble’
bill, bowl, bull, bola, bolero, bouillon, 14 more
through Latin bulliō ‘to boil’
Today it means
noun Disorder; uproar.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin bulla / garboil