Word Meanings - SCUDDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

Related words: (words related to SCUDDLE)

• HURRY-SKURRY
  Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• HASTILY
  1. In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly. 2. Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly. We hastily engaged in the war. Swift. 3. Passionately; impatiently. Shak.
• HURRY
  haste, Dan. hurre to buzz, Icel. hurr hurly-burly, MHG. hurren to 1. To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. Impetuous lust hurries him on. South. They hurried him abroad a bark. Shak. 2. To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action;
• HURRYINGLY
  In a hurrying manner.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.