hurry-skurry

English

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Verb

hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried)

  1. (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly.
    • 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62
      " […] Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry-skurrying back without having killed him."

Noun

hurry-skurry (plural hurry-skurries)

  1. A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.

Adverb

hurry-skurry (not comparable)

  1. With confusion and bustle.
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