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hurry-scurry
[hur-ee-skur-ee, huhr-ee-skuhr-ee]
noun
headlong, disorderly haste; hurry and confusion.
adverb
with hurrying and scurrying.
confusedly; in a bustle.
adjective
characterized by headlong, disorderly flight or haste.
hurry-scurry
adverb
in frantic haste
adjective
hasty and disorderly
noun
disordered haste
verb
to rush about in confusion
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hurry-scurry1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hurry-scurry1
Example Sentences
An 1879 poker tournament attracts a cast of colorful high rollers, opportunists and scam artists to the dusty Arizona frontier in "Western Religion," a one-dimensional movie painted in painfully broad strokes and whizzing, hurry-scurry action sequences.
It all acts as a counterweight to the hurry-scurry of Harvard Square around the corner, where crowds of tourists jostle with Ivy League academics amid the clamor of street performers, vendors and the thrum of traffic.
The hurry-scurry, the angry hum of recent weeks had departed; a quivering stillness now permeated the premises.
The streets were filled with the hurry-scurry of a moving army, splashing through mud puddles.
There must be no untidiness or hurry-scurry; you must never leave things behind, or tear or crumple them—if so, your carelessness will bring its own punishment, for it would prevent the spell's working, and even I—fairy or witch as you think me——" "No, no," Clodagh interrupted eagerly, "not witch.
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