scurry

English

Etymology

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: scur‧ry
• Rhymes: -ʌri

Verb

scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)

1. To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
   • 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies

     Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

Derived terms

• scurry away
• scurry off

Translations

to run away with quick light steps

• Finnish: kipittää (fi), vipeltää (fi)
• French: détaler (fr), se sauver (fr)
• German: hasten (de), huschen (de), vorbeihuschen (de)

• Russian: мчаться (ru) (mčátʹsja), нестись (ru) (nestísʹ)
• Turkish: acele etmek, hızla kaçmak (tr), koşmak (tr), koşturmak (tr), seğirtmek (tr)

Anagrams

• currys