单词 | hurry-scurry |
释义 | hurry-scurryv. 1. intransitive. To move or proceed with hurry-scurry; to run or rush in confused and undignified haste. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry hiec1250 skelta1400 hasty?a1425 hasten1534 festinate1652 to look sharp1680 to make play1799 hurry-scurry1809 to tumble up1826 crowd1838 rush1859 hurry1871 to get a move on1888 hurry and scurry1889 to buck up1890 to get a hump on1892 to get a wiggle on1896 to shake a leg1904 to smack it about1914 flurry1917 to step on it (her)1923 to make it snappy1926 jildi1930 to get an iggri on1946 ert- c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 45 Out bolted the Squire, and hurry scurry'd away. 1809 W. Combe Schoolmaster's Tour in Poet. Mag. May 8 She was among those busy wives Who hurry-scurry through their lives. 1896 Daily News 4 Dec. 7/4 Having to hurry-scurry about the platform in search of a vacant seat. 2. transitive (nonce-use.) ΚΠ 1896 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 2/1 The paste is hurry-skurried into pie, pudding, or tart. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019). hurry-scurryadv.adj.n. colloquial. A. adv. With the hurry and confusion of persons, etc., running in diverse directions; in disorderly haste, pell-mell. ΚΠ 1753 T. Gray Long Story in Six Poems 18 Each hole and cupboard they explore..Run hurry-skurry round the floor. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Mad Ox in Poems xiv The victor ox scoured down the street, The mob fled hurry-scurry. 1834 H. W. Longfellow Outre-Mer ii. 186 Away went horse and rider at full speed,—hurry-scurry,—up hill and down. 1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 138 A whistling coal train drove these horsemen hurry-scurry out of its way. B. adj. Characterized by hurry and commotion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting with haste > hasty or hurried hastivea1325 raplyc1390 runninga1400 rapec1410 precipitate1545 hasty1560 abrupt1576 festinate1598 breathless1606 hasteful1610 precipitatedc1625 arreptitious1653 hurried1667 prerupt1727 hurry-scurry1732 rush1879 rushed1888 scampered1894 rush-round1903 rushy1976 drive-by1992 1732 E. Forrest Hogarth's Tour 4 We made a hurry~scurry dinner at the Smack at the ten-gun battery. 1789 F. Burney Diary Dec. (1842) V. 80 It must be a mighty hurry~skurry life! 1836 B. Disraeli Lett. Runnymede 154 That volatile effusion which is the hurry-skurry offspring of ignorance and guile. 1863 Bradford Advertiser 18 July 5/2 Then hurry-skurry retreat; men tumbling over one another for fear. C. n. Hurry and confusion; the hurrying and disorderly rushing of a number; a ‘rush’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss to-doc1330 adoc1380 great (also much) cry and little woolc1460 feery-fary1535 fray1568 stirc1595 do1598 coil1599 hurl1603 ruffle1609 clutterment1611 buzz1628 bustle1637 paddle1642 racket1644 clutter1652 tracas1656 tracasserie1656 circumference1667 flutter1667 hurly-burly1678 fuss1701 fissle1719 fraise1725 hurry-scurry1753 fix-fax1768 fal-lal1775 widdle1789 touse1792 fuffle1801 going-on1817 hurry and scurry1823 sputter1823 tew1825 Bob's-a-dying1829 fidge1832 tamasha1842 mulling1845 mussing1846 fettling1847 fooster1847 trade1854 scrimmage1855 carry-on1861 fuss-and-feathers1866 on-carry1870 make-a-do1880 miration1883 razzle-dazzle1885 song and dance1885 to get a rustle on1891 tea-party1903 stirabout1905 whoop-de-do1910 chichi1928 production1941 go-go1966 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > a hurry hurry1660 hurry-scurry1753 sherry1821 whew1905 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. xlvii. 294 Why should not we women, after all, contrive to make hurry-skurries? 1797 Dr. Burney Let. 20 July in F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1846) VI. The close of the season is always hurry-scurry. a1805 A. Carlyle Autobiogr. (1860) iii. 134 While our dinner was preparing, an alarm was beat in the camp, which occasioned a great hurry-scurry in the courtyard. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxvi. 371 All was now commotion and hurry-scurry inside and out. 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ xi. 488 This is the age of progress. No,..it is the age of hurry-skurry. We have all run ourselves out of breath. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.c1771adv.adj.n.1732 |
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