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单词 hurry-scurry
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hurry-scurryv.

Etymology: < hurry-scurry adv.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhurry-ˈscurry.
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
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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.

/ˈhʌrɪˈskʌri/
Forms: Also hurry-skurry.
Etymology: < hurry v. + scurry v.: the jingling combination has the effect of a reduplicative formation; compare helter-skelter.
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).
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v.c1771adv.adj.n.1732
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