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Word entry · 6 letters

scurry

Best crossword clue

"Move quickly"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈskʌ.ɹi/Part of speech noun, verbSorted crrsuyStarts with SEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. rushing about hastily in an undignified way

Word origin

Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
  • 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 […]

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