name
Meaning 1
A surname from Irish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
scurry
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈskʌ.ɹi/
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/ˈskʌ.ɹi/ without the hurry–furry merger
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/ˈskɜɹ.i/ hurry–furry merger
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US: hurry-furry Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Northern-England: /ˈskʊ.ɹi/
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rhymes with -ʌɹi
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CMU ARPABET: S K ER1 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A dash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Bustle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 5
To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
rushing about hastily in an undignified way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scamper, scramble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: haste, hurry, rush, rushing
verb
Meaning 7
to move about or proceed hurriedly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scamper, skitter, scuttle
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: run
Narrower terms: crab
History
Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scoireadh (“descendant of Scoireadh”).
Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.
Across languages
Translations
49 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: тичам (tičam) — to run away with quick light steps
- Bulgarian: припкам (pripkam) — to run away with quick light steps
- Czech: utíkat — to run away with quick light steps
- Czech: cupitat — to run away with quick light steps
- Dutch: snellen — to run away with quick light steps
- Dutch: hollen — to run away with quick light steps
- Esperanto: krabli — to run away with quick light steps
- Finnish: kipittää — to run away with quick light steps
- Finnish: vipeltää — to run away with quick light steps
- French: détaler — to run away with quick light steps
- French: se sauver — to run away with quick light steps
- Galician: fuxir — to run away with quick light steps
- German: hasten — to run away with quick light steps
- German: huschen — to run away with quick light steps
- German: vorbeihuschen — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: iszkol — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: iramodik — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: inal — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: oson — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: surran — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: siet — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: szalad — to run away with quick light steps
- Hungarian: rohan — to run away with quick light steps
- Irish: sciurd — to run away with quick light steps
- Irish: scinn — to run away with quick light steps
- Italian: fuggire — to run away with quick light steps
- Italian: scappare — to run away with quick light steps
- Italian: svignarsela — to run away with quick light steps
- Macedonian: тр́чка (tŕčka) — to run away with quick light steps
- Macedonian: при́пка (prípka) — to run away with quick light steps
- Māori: karapetapeta — to run away with quick light steps
- Māori: tuoma — to run away with quick light steps
- Polish: mknąć — to run away with quick light steps
- Polish: pomknąć — to run away with quick light steps
- Polish: pędzić — to run away with quick light steps
- Polish: popędzić — to run away with quick light steps
- Russian: мча́ться (mčátʹsja) — to run away with quick light steps
- Russian: нести́сь (nestísʹ) — to run away with quick light steps
- Serbo-Croatian: trčkarati — to run away with quick light steps
- Spanish: corretear — to run away with quick light steps
- Swedish: kila — to run away with quick light steps
- Turkish: seğirtmek — to run away with quick light steps
- Turkish: acele etmek — to run away with quick light steps
- Turkish: hızla kaçmak — to run away with quick light steps
- Turkish: koşmak — to run away with quick light steps
- Turkish: koşturmak — to run away with quick light steps
- Ukrainian: поспішати (pospišaty) — to run away with quick light steps
- Ukrainian: мчатися (mčatysja) — to run away with quick light steps
- Ukrainian: метушитися (metušytysja) — to run away with quick light steps