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Hurry-skurry

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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.


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A wild hurry-skurry scene ensued; each party took to the banks, the rocks and trees, to gain favorable positions, and an irregular firing was kept up on either side, without much effect.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Before she had been long down in the kitchen again with me, we heard a hurry-skurry upstairs, and the parlour bell ringing like mad, and my mistress's voice calling out for help.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Until at last they got so jumbled together, in the hurry-skurry, helter-skelter, of the match, that whether the kettle chirped and the Cricket hummed, or the Cricket chirped and the kettle hummed, or they both chirped and both hummed, it would have taken a clearer head than yours or mine to have decided with anything like certainty.
The Cricket on the Hearth by Dickens, Charles View in context
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