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hurry-skurry

verb

Etymology

Perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hurry.

Definitions

  1. To hurry

    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.

  2. A state of confusion and bustle

    A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.

  3. With confusion and bustle.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA