scurry

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  1. intransitive verb To go with light running steps; scamper.
  2. intransitive verb To flurry or swirl about.
  3. noun The act of scurrying.
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  • Still plenty of scurry-scurry, but most of it mental, not metal. —  EBSCOhost
  • There was a scurry, a migration of rats, as the trap-door was replaced;... silence. Wessel returned to his reading-table, opened to the Legend of Britomartis or of Chastity—and waited. —  Tales of the Jazz Age
  • If the come close we will become hurry-scurry, do not know to do then .... —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • That's a question most troops ask themselves when a sniper or a small band of bad guys pop off a few rounds and scurry -- that is, assuming the triggermen missed. —  Defense Tech
  • Oh-hoo-hoo-hoo!" There was a scamper and a scurry, a trampling of horses. —  The Carbonels
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pattering ·  scuffle ·  flurry ·  patter ·  gibber ·  slither ·  trample ·  gabble

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scurry:   scurries ·  scurried ·  scurrying
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably short for hurry-scurry.

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  1. Also skurry; an extended form of scur or the orig. scour, perhaps due in part to skurriour and similar forms of scurrer, and in part to association with hurry, as in hurryscurry.
  2. Also skurry; from scurry, v.
 

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