scurry
Collocations
4ADJ.
little, round
VERB + SCURRY
figures, go, starting
SCURRY + NOUN
floor, home, midfield, street
PREP.
across, around, between, on, on
Definitions
verb
To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and attack.
Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
noun
A dash.
Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
name
A surname from Irish.
A town in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
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6Shakespeare has gone back to the formula of last season, by encouraging his players to press high up the pitch and restoring Shinji Okazaki to the starting XI to scurry around between midfield and att
WiktionaryThen the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
WiktionaryFound a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
WiktionaryRodents scurry on the floor in fear.
Tatoeba · #8424512"Go on. Scurry on home little one."
Tatoeba · #11535885Shadowy figures scurry across the street.
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