hurry-skurry
English
Alternative forms
- hurry-scurry
Verb
hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried)
- (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly.
- 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62
- " […] Besides, you are perfectly able to protect Telemachus, and to see him safely home again, while the suitors have to come hurry-skurrying back without having killed him."
- 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62
Noun
hurry-skurry (plural hurry-skurries)
- A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
Adverb
hurry-skurry (not comparable)
- With confusion and bustle.