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Scurry

//ˈskʌ.ɹi// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A dash.

    "Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]"

  2. 2
    rushing about hastily in an undignified way wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To run with quick light steps, to scamper.

    "Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack."

  2. 2
    to move about or proceed hurriedly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

Etymology 3

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scoireadh (“descendant of Scoireadh”).

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