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Webster 1913 Edition


Scuddle

Scud′dle

,
Verb.
I.
[Freq. of
scud
: cf.
Scuttle
to hurry.]
To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

Webster 1828 Edition


Scuddle

SCUD'DLE

, v.i.. To run with a kind of affected haste; commonly pronounced scuttle.

Definition 2024


scuddle

scuddle

English

Verb

scuddle (third-person singular simple present scuddles, present participle scuddling, simple past and past participle scuddled)

  1. (intransitive) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
    • around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade
      Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.