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scurry

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1. scurry - Noun

2. scurry - Verb

3. Scurry - Proper noun

Meaning

To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.

Act of scurring; hurried movement.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it? Beth Orton

The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or scurry. Ogden Nash

The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them A wet leaf that clings to the threshold. Ezra Pound

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry. P. J. O'Rourke

Man is always in a scurry. Senegalese Proverb

A man who has his feet hacked off cannot scurry far. Norse Proverb

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