hurry-skurry
hurry-skurry verb: to hurry; act hurriedly.
Verb
hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried)
Noun
hurry-skurry (plural hurry-skurries)
- A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
- An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and...1793, Arthur Young, “1788 [chapter]”, in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National...
Adverb
hurry-skurry (not comparable)
- With confusion and bustle.
Forms of hurry-skurry
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | hurry-skurries |
| present participle | hurry-skurrying |
| past participle | hurry-skurried |
| past | hurry-skurried |
| alternative form | hurry-scurry |
| Noun | |
| plural | hurry-skurries |
Origin of hurry-skurry
Perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hurry.
Questions about hurry-skurry
- What does hurry-skurry mean?
- Hurry-skurry means to hurry; act hurriedly.
- What part of speech is hurry-skurry?
- Hurry-skurry can be a verb, a noun or an adverb.
- What is the past tense of hurry-skurry?
- The past tense of hurry-skurry is hurry-skurried.
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