ascurry

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adjective

Scurrying; filled (with scurrying people or animals).

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Meanings

adjectiveascurry (not comparable)
  1. not comparableScurrying; filled (with scurrying people or animals).

    a ship […] with sailors ascurry from and to below

    1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, published 1994, Part 2, p. 150
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    […] the darkness beyond the wood that night seemed ascurry and fractious,

    1988, William Horwood, Duncton Quest, London: Arrow, published 1989, Part 2, Chapter 19, p. 311

    […] gulls veering and looping, cormorants guarding their nests in the high rocks, sandpipers ascurry at the water’s edge, pelicans skimming and plummeting, coastal jackdaws grubbing for dainties.

    1998, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Dark Sleeper, New York: Ace Books, published 2000, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 133

Origin

From a- + scurry.

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Chicago

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