hurrisome

comparative more hurrisome · superlative most hurrisome · alternative hurrysome

1. Characterised or marked by hurrying; quick; hasty.

   Don't be hurrisome or you'll pay for it with a broken head.

   2009, James G. Anderson, Mark Sebanc, The Stoneholding

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   Although the brisket was excellent, Elbert seemed a tad hurrisome to conclude the meal so she would stop talking.

   2013, Eric Gene Crider, Wisp

   The murderer of Marcia's husband stripped off rubber gloves, thrust gloves and envelope deeply away, then fled in a stroll northward toward an exit different from the place of entry ... to a hurrisome eye just another foolhardy New Yorker defying the statistics of Central Park's nighttime crime.

   2015, Ellery Queen, The Last Woman in His Life

   Levashev shrugged; the shrug said that Americans were a hurrisome people.

   2015, Ellery Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Kill You?