Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a loud fuss, commotion.

1772

Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 391: She curs’d till all the ground look’d blue, / And set up such a shrill-ton’d yell, / They plainly heard her voice in hell; / Her both’rings gave him such a diz’ness / He quite neglected all his bus’ness. [footnote] Both’ring, a new coined city word; any cockney can tell you the English of it.