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hurry-scurry

hurry-scurry is the alternative form of hurry-skurry.

Meaning of hurry-skurry

Verb

hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried)

  1. (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly.
    • […] 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

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Forms of hurry-scurry

Verb
third-person singular presenthurry-scurries
present participlehurry-scurrying
past participlehurry-scurried
pasthurry-scurried
Noun
pluralhurry-scurries

Questions about hurry-scurry

What is hurry-scurry the alternative form of?
Hurry-scurry is the alternative form of hurry-skurry.

Words near hurry-scurry in the dictionary

  1. hurry up and wait
  2. hurry up the cakes
  3. hurry-furry merger
  4. hurry-scurried
  5. hurry-scurries
  6. hurry-scurry
  7. hurry-scurrying
  8. hurry-skurried
  9. hurry-skurries
  10. hurry-skurry
  11. hurry-skurrying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurry-scurry (page history and authors); hurry-skurry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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