hurry-skurry

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A state of confusion and bustle; a frantic hurry; a rushing about.
    — 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: [...]
动词 v.
  1. To hurry; act hurriedly. archaic
    — […] 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.
副词 adv.
  1. With confusion and bustle. not-comparable

词形变化

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

词源

词源 1
Perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hurry.
词源 2
Perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hurry.
词源 3
Perhaps a rhyming reduplication of hurry.
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