hurry-skurry

== English == === Alternative forms === hurry-scurry === Verb === hurry-skurry (third-person singular simple present hurry-skurries, present participle hurry-skurrying, simple past and past participle hurry-skurried) (archaic) To hurry; act hurriedly. 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62 " […] 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." === Noun === hurry-skurry (plural hurry-skurries) A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about. === Adverb === hurry-skurry (not comparable) With confusion and bustle.