释义 |
scutter /ˈskʌtə /chiefly British verb [no object, with adverbial of direction](Especially of a small animal) move hurriedly with short steps: a little dog scuttered up from the cabin...- A traitorous spider scuttered along a branch sending Tale out of the bush and towards the porch.
- Its not a reflection from the torch, its not an insect scuttering by and its not a particle of dust.
- As soon as her body lay horizontally, spiders and insects and worms came scuttering forward, and began to eat her skin.
noun [in singular]An act or sound of scuttering: there was no sound in the wood, no scutter of tiny beast Rhymesabutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, gutter, mutter, nutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter |