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hurry-skurrying

hurry-skurrying is the present participle and gerund 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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Questions about hurry-skurrying

What is hurry-skurrying the present participle and gerund of?
Hurry-skurrying is the present participle and gerund of hurry-skurry.

Words near hurry-skurrying in the dictionary

  1. hurry-scurry
  2. hurry-scurrying
  3. hurry-skurried
  4. hurry-skurries
  5. hurry-skurry
  6. hurry-skurrying
  7. hurry-up offense
  8. hurry-up offenses
  9. hurry-up wagon
  10. hurry-up wagons
  11. hurryed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hurry-skurrying (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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