scutter
Noun
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Noun
scutter
- Thin excrement.
- 2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (page 74)
- Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.
- 2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (page 74)
- A hasty run.
scutter (scutters, present participle scuttering; past and past participle scuttered)
- To void thin excrement.
- 1565, Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus:
- Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter.
- Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
- 2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (page 74)
- Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.
- 1565, Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus:
- To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.
- We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.
- A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.
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