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Webster 1913 Edition
Scurry
Definition 2024
scurry
scurry
English
Verb
scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)
- 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.
- 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Derived terms
- scurry away
- scurry off
Translations
to run away with quick light steps
Noun
scurry (plural scurries)
- A dash.
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)
- Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)