scurryn.

Brit.

/ˈskʌri/, U.S.

/ˈskəri/

Etymology: < scurry v.

1. The act of scurrying; a hurried movement, a rush; hurry, haste, bustle. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste

hiec1175

hightc1225

rapa1250

hyingc1275

rape?a1300

rekec1330

hastiheada1393

pressa1393

hastea1400

unhonea1400

racec1400

gethea1500

festination1541

festinancy1660

hurry1692

festinance1727

scurry1823

rush1849

jildi1890

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

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 356 Skurry, haste, impetuosity.

1830 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 437 It was such a treat after the hurry and scurry, and heartless bustle of London.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. viii. 199 Belinda would usually come down in a scurry as she heard her mother's bell.

1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere v. 34 Unsuspecting gulls..took to wing with a tremendous scurry.

1910 Q. Rev. Jan. 181 Far away from the scurry and the scramble..of London life.

a. Horse Racing. A short quick run or race on horseback.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > rapid

spurnc1330

racec1440

tantivya1658

scurry1824

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race

wild-goose race1594

wild goose chase1597

bell-course1607

Palio1673

stake1696

paddock course1705

handicap1751

by-match1759

pony race1765

give and take plate1769

sweepstake1773

steeplechase1793

mile-heat1802

steeple race1809

welter1820

trotting-race1822

scurry1824

walkover1829

steeple hunt1831

set-to1840

sky race1840

flat race1848

trot1856

grind1857

feeler1858

nursery1860

waiting race1868

horse-trot1882

selling plate1888

flying milea1893

chase1894

flying handicap1894

prep1894

selling race1898

point-to-point1902

seller1922

shoo-in1928

daily double1930

bumper1946

selling chase1965

tiercé1981

1824 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 57 407 They travelled for adventures to the courts Of princes,—where at tournaments and skurries, Fame could be earn'd.

1829 Sporting Mag. 24 51 A very fast scurry with Lord Lonsdale the day before I left.

1885 Field 17 Jan. 63/3 To wind up, a Flat Scurry, at catch weights, usually gave good sport.

1885 Field 21 Feb. 219/3 Although only a few fields separate the two coverts,..more than one coat changed colour during the short scurry.

1898 Daily News 6 Sept. 4/7 There are still at Doncaster too many of the five furlong scurries.

b. A run (made by an animal).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [noun] > run

scurry1865

1865 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. She [the hare] steals the help of a scurry up the ditch-bottom.

1874 ‘S. Beauchamp’ Grantley Grange I. xiii. 247 [The dog] has his scurry..night and morning.

3. A fluttering assemblage (e.g. of birds, snow, foam) moving or driven rapidly through the air. †Also, a confused tangle of material.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > an assemblage of things fluttering

flurry1828

scurry1839

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > fluttering

scurry1839

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > tangled mass

matting?1615

wreath1648

scurry1839

jungle1850

fog1869

tangle-twine1878

tardle1898

snaggle1904

1839 W. M. Thackeray in Corsair 26 Oct. Stray Papers (1901) 177 Ladies at work at a frame in the midst of a great skurry and labyrinth of worsted balls, making slipper-tops [etc.].

1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xxvi. 267 The birds circled overhead, or dropped like thick scurries of snow~flakes on the water.

1868 R. W. Huntley Gloss. Cotswold (Gloucs.) Dial. Skurry, a flock in confused flight.

1873 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 123 That flight of baby angels caught up and whirled along in the wake of Gabriel like a skurry of autumn birds.

1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. xviii. 312 A scurry of foam flew like pellets from the rampart.

Draft additions 1993

Horse Racing. A short, quick run or race on horseback; in Show-jumping and Carriage-driving, a race ‘against the clock’, in which faults are counted as additional time penalties. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > show-jumping > type of competition

scurry1946

puissance1951

1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 197 Scurry jumpers, this class is judged on time with one second added for each fault instead of the usual scoring.

1953 Show Jumping (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 15 A result is always obtained after one round. (Such competitions are:- ‘Fault and Out’, ‘Relay’, ‘Take Your Own Line’ and ‘Scurry’.)

1973 Country Life 18 Oct. 1136/2 The Eldonian Double Harness Scurry was the scene of a potentially dangerous accident when Gill Greig..was run over by the cart.

1986 Horse Internat. May 31/2 The native breeds..have been very successful in every form of driving competition from cross country to scurry driving to concours d'elegance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scurryv.

Brit.

/ˈskʌri/, U.S.

/ˈskəri/

Forms: Also skirry, skurry.

Etymology: In sense 1, apparently a back-formation < scurrier n.¹ In the current sense perhaps taken < hurry-scurry v. a reduplication of hurry v.

†1. intransitive. ? To ride out as a ‘scurrier’. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > [verb (intransitive)] > reconnoitre

akenc1400

scurry1580

reknowledge1582

reconnoitre1777

observe1799

spot1892

recce1943

shufti1943

recon1966

society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly

runeOE

drivec1300

scurry1580

tantivy1681

to ride triumph1761

jockey1767

tivy1842

spank1843

rocket1862

to let out1889

1580 T. North tr. Annibal in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1135 Then he commaunded the horsemen of the Numidians to scurrie to the trenches of the Romanes, to intise him to come to battell.

a. To go rapidly, move hurriedly. Often with adverbs, as off, away.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper

scuttlea1450

scuddle1577

curry1608

scamper1691

brattle1725

scurry1810

chevya1825

skitter1845

skelter1852

hurry and scurry1857

skeeter1964

1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama v. 44 The wind..opens the clouds; Scattered before the gale, They skurry through the sky.

1839 W. M. Thackeray Major Gahagan v The ladies..skurried out of the apartment.

1869 ‘Ouida’ Tricotrin I. 260 She is no more dead than that mouse that skirries over the floor.

1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xvi. 219 They scurry away like rabbits when they see her coming.

1894 A. I. Ritchie Chapters from Mem. ii. 14 Remembered events come cheerfully scurrying up one after another.

b. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry v.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper

scuttlea1450

scuddle1577

curry1608

scamper1691

brattle1725

scurry1810

chevya1825

skitter1845

skelter1852

hurry and scurry1857

skeeter1964

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-

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers (1858) xix. 145 Charlotte hurried and skurried about the room hither and thither, doing or pretending to do many things.

1889 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 140 How petty seems the work on which they are hurrying and skurrying.

3. transitive.

a. To cause to go hastily or move rapidly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > move or cause to move swiftly on foot [verb (transitive)] > cause to scurry

scurry1850

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move or cause to move swiftly in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > direct (one's way or steps) with haste > cause to move with haste

i-fuseOE

speeda1325

hastec1330

hasty?a1425

hasten?1537

press1611

hackney1617

scurry1850

shoot1895

1850 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 26 Feb. Off we set,..skurrying the policemen off the road.

1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes i. xv When the traitor-swain with ships of Ida Scurried o'er the wave his hostess Helen.

1892 Garland Little Norsk iv. 32 The wind..scurried the snow south or east.

b. To hurry over, get through quickly and slovenly.

ΚΠ

1908 M. Findlater & J. Findlater Crossriggs v The lad is willing enough to read to me,..but..he mumbles, or else he scurries, just those bits that are worth reading.

Derivatives

ˈscurrying n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > scurrying or scampering

scuttlinga1450

scampering1691

scurrying1862

squittling1862

chevying1880

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > scurrying or scampering

scampering1859

scurrying1862

skittering1883

scuttling1895

1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 75 A view of flustered and scurrying fishing-boats in a gale of wind.

1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xix A hurrying, scurrying crowd of horses.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. v. 164 The scurrying of a rat Affrighted me.

1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 93 The scurrying drops came thicker and thicker.

1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 398/2 There was a sound of skurrying steps.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scurry
释义	scurryn. Brit. /ˈskʌri/, U.S. /ˈskəri/ Etymology: < scurry v. 1. The act of scurrying; a hurried movement, a rush; hurry, haste, bustle. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry n. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste hiec1175 hightc1225 rapa1250 hyingc1275 rape?a1300 rekec1330 hastiheada1393 pressa1393 hastea1400 unhonea1400 racec1400 gethea1500 festination1541 festinancy1660 hurry1692 festinance1727 scurry1823 rush1849 jildi1890 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 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 356 Skurry, haste, impetuosity. 1830 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) II. 437 It was such a treat after the hurry and scurry, and heartless bustle of London. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate II. viii. 199 Belinda would usually come down in a scurry as she heard her mother's bell. 1873 G. C. Davies Mountain, Meadow & Mere v. 34 Unsuspecting gulls..took to wing with a tremendous scurry. 1910 Q. Rev. Jan. 181 Far away from the scurry and the scramble..of London life. 2. a. Horse Racing. A short quick run or race on horseback. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion > rapid spurnc1330 racec1440 tantivya1658 scurry1824 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1824 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 57 407 They travelled for adventures to the courts Of princes,—where at tournaments and skurries, Fame could be earn'd. 1829 Sporting Mag. 24 51 A very fast scurry with Lord Lonsdale the day before I left. 1885 Field 17 Jan. 63/3 To wind up, a Flat Scurry, at catch weights, usually gave good sport. 1885 Field 21 Feb. 219/3 Although only a few fields separate the two coverts,..more than one coat changed colour during the short scurry. 1898 Daily News 6 Sept. 4/7 There are still at Doncaster too many of the five furlong scurries. b. A run (made by an animal). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [noun] > run scurry1865 1865 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. She [the hare] steals the help of a scurry up the ditch-bottom. 1874 ‘S. Beauchamp’ Grantley Grange I. xiii. 247 [The dog] has his scurry..night and morning. 3. A fluttering assemblage (e.g. of birds, snow, foam) moving or driven rapidly through the air. †Also, a confused tangle of material. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [noun] > an assemblage of things fluttering flurry1828 scurry1839 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > fluttering scurry1839 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [noun] > that which is entangled > tangled mass matting?1615 wreath1648 scurry1839 jungle1850 fog1869 tangle-twine1878 tardle1898 snaggle1904 1839 W. M. Thackeray in Corsair 26 Oct. Stray Papers (1901) 177 Ladies at work at a frame in the midst of a great skurry and labyrinth of worsted balls, making slipper-tops [etc.]. 1858 B. Taylor Northern Trav. xxvi. 267 The birds circled overhead, or dropped like thick scurries of snow~flakes on the water. 1868 R. W. Huntley Gloss. Cotswold (Gloucs.) Dial. Skurry, a flock in confused flight. 1873 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) II. 123 That flight of baby angels caught up and whirled along in the wake of Gabriel like a skurry of autumn birds. 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley I. xviii. 312 A scurry of foam flew like pellets from the rampart. Draft additions 1993 Horse Racing. A short, quick run or race on horseback; in Show-jumping and Carriage-driving, a race ‘against the clock’, in which faults are counted as additional time penalties. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > [noun] > show-jumping > type of competition scurry1946 puissance1951 1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 197 Scurry jumpers, this class is judged on time with one second added for each fault instead of the usual scoring. 1953 Show Jumping (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 15 A result is always obtained after one round. (Such competitions are:- ‘Fault and Out’, ‘Relay’, ‘Take Your Own Line’ and ‘Scurry’.) 1973 Country Life 18 Oct. 1136/2 The Eldonian Double Harness Scurry was the scene of a potentially dangerous accident when Gill Greig..was run over by the cart. 1986 Horse Internat. May 31/2 The native breeds..have been very successful in every form of driving competition from cross country to scurry driving to concours d'elegance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scurryv. Brit. /ˈskʌri/, U.S. /ˈskəri/ Forms: Also skirry, skurry. Etymology: In sense 1, apparently a back-formation < scurrier n.¹ In the current sense perhaps taken < hurry-scurry v. a reduplication of hurry v. †1. intransitive. ? To ride out as a ‘scurrier’. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [verb (intransitive)] > reconnoitre akenc1400 scurry1580 reknowledge1582 reconnoitre1777 observe1799 spot1892 recce1943 shufti1943 recon1966 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride rapidly runeOE drivec1300 scurry1580 tantivy1681 to ride triumph1761 jockey1767 tivy1842 spank1843 rocket1862 to let out1889 1580 T. North tr. Annibal in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1135 Then he commaunded the horsemen of the Numidians to scurrie to the trenches of the Romanes, to intise him to come to battell. 2. a. To go rapidly, move hurriedly. Often with adverbs, as off, away. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper scuttlea1450 scuddle1577 curry1608 scamper1691 brattle1725 scurry1810 chevya1825 skitter1845 skelter1852 hurry and scurry1857 skeeter1964 1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama v. 44 The wind..opens the clouds; Scattered before the gale, They skurry through the sky. 1839 W. M. Thackeray Major Gahagan v The ladies..skurried out of the apartment. 1869 ‘Ouida’ Tricotrin I. 260 She is no more dead than that mouse that skirries over the floor. 1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xvi. 219 They scurry away like rabbits when they see her coming. 1894 A. I. Ritchie Chapters from Mem. ii. 14 Remembered events come cheerfully scurrying up one after another. b. hurry and scurry: cf. hurry-scurry v. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper scuttlea1450 scuddle1577 curry1608 scamper1691 brattle1725 scurry1810 chevya1825 skitter1845 skelter1852 hurry and scurry1857 skeeter1964 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- 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers (1858) xix. 145 Charlotte hurried and skurried about the room hither and thither, doing or pretending to do many things. 1889 J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 140 How petty seems the work on which they are hurrying and skurrying. 3. transitive. a. To cause to go hastily or move rapidly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > move or cause to move swiftly on foot [verb (transitive)] > cause to scurry scurry1850 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move or cause to move swiftly in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > direct (one's way or steps) with haste > cause to move with haste i-fuseOE speeda1325 hastec1330 hasty?a1425 hasten?1537 press1611 hackney1617 scurry1850 shoot1895 1850 W. M. Thackeray Lett. 26 Feb. Off we set,..skurrying the policemen off the road. 1853 F. W. Newman tr. Horace Odes i. xv When the traitor-swain with ships of Ida Scurried o'er the wave his hostess Helen. 1892 Garland Little Norsk iv. 32 The wind..scurried the snow south or east. b. To hurry over, get through quickly and slovenly. ΚΠ 1908 M. Findlater & J. Findlater Crossriggs v The lad is willing enough to read to me,..but..he mumbles, or else he scurries, just those bits that are worth reading. Derivatives ˈscurrying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [noun] > scurrying or scampering scuttlinga1450 scampering1691 scurrying1862 squittling1862 chevying1880 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > scurrying or scampering scampering1859 scurrying1862 skittering1883 scuttling1895 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 75 A view of flustered and scurrying fishing-boats in a gale of wind. 1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. xix A hurrying, scurrying crowd of horses. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. v. 164 The scurrying of a rat Affrighted me. 1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 93 The scurrying drops came thicker and thicker. 1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 398/2 There was a sound of skurrying steps. 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