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
Rhymes
- from above-stairs
- from a child
- fromage blanc
- fromage frais
- from all angles
- from A to B
- from A to Z
- from bad to worse
- from cover to cover
- from day one
- from day to day (or hour to hour etc.)
- (from) door to door
- from farm to fork (or table)
- from first to last
- (from) go to whoa
- (from) hand to mouth
- from head to toe (or foot)
- from hence
- from hero to zero
- fromm
- from memory
- Fromm, Erich
- from nature
- from now (or then etc.) on
- from on high