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hurry-scurry

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hur·ry-scur·ry also hur·ry-skur·ry (hûr-skûr, hr-skr)
intr.v. hur·ry-scur·ried also hur·ry-skur·ried, hur·ry-scur·ry·ing also hur·ry-skur·ry·ing, hur·ry-scur·ries also hur·ry-skur·ries
To move or act with undue hurry and confusion.
n. pl. hur·ry-scur·ries
Confused haste; agitation.
[Reduplication of hurry.]
hurry-scurry adj.
hurry-scurry
adv
in frantic haste
adj
hasty and disorderly
n
disordered haste
vb (intr)
to rush about in confusion
[reduplication of hurry; compare helter-skelter]
Translations
hurry-scurry
n → Gewühl nt, → Gewimmel nt
vi → (hin und her) hasten, herumschwirren; (children, insects) → wuseln


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Sometimes his crew would be heard dashing along past the farmhouses at midnight, with whoop and halloo, like a troop of Don Cossacks; and the old dames, startled out of their sleep, would listen for a moment till the hurry-scurry had clattered by, and then exclaim, "Ay, there goes Brom Bones and his gang
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