hurry-skurry

present singular third person hurry-skurries · participle present hurry-skurrying · participle past hurry-skurried · past hurry-skurried · alternative hurry-scurry

1. archaicTo 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.

   1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book V., page 62

plural hurry-skurries · alternative hurry-scurry

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

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   An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]

   1793, Arthur Young, “1788 [chapter]”, in Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, Dublin: Printed for Messrs. R. Cross, […], →OCLC, page 192

alternative hurry-scurry

1. not comparableWith confusion and bustle.