skurry away
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Dated spelling of scurry away.
Example Sentences
- "The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go."
- "As we burst on them out of the smoke of their own fire, yelling like a pack of wolves in sight of their prey, they broke and scattered as a flock of partridges skurries away at the shot of the hunter."
- "Uttering a startled: “Oh, my!” Millie skurries away, and the Celestial returns to the side of the detective, who seems just now to be playing a losing game."
- "On he galloped,[…]—past a silent shepherd’s hut, which stood near a wide creek, and then splashing through the cool water, which wound away through the dark plain like a thread of silver in the moonlight—then, again, the wide grassy plain dotted here and there with tall clumps of shadowy trees, and on either side he could see the sheep skurrying away like fantastic spectres—[…]"
- "Erect and alert all the summer day, / Near his dug-out the prairie dog sits; / If a stranger comes nigh he skurries away, / Nearly frightened out of his wits."