skedaddle
19th century US. Probably an alteration of British dialect scaddle ("to run off in a fright"), from the adjective scaddle ("wild, timid, skittish"), from Middle English scathel, skadylle ("harmful, fierce, wild"), perhaps of Scandinavian origin, from Norse, Old *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði ("harm"). Pronunciation Verb
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19th century US. Probably an alteration of British dialect scaddle ("to run off in a fright"), from the adjective scaddle ("wild, timid, skittish"), from Middle English scathel, skadylle ("harmful, fierce, wild"), perhaps of Scandinavian origin, from Norse, Old *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði ("harm"). Pronunciation Verb
skedaddle (skedaddles, present participle skedaddling; past and past participle skedaddled)
- (informal, intransitive) To move or run away quickly.
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 2, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Badge_of_Courage_(1895)/Chapter_2#29 page 29]:
- "Well," continued the youth, "lots of good-a-'nough men have thought they was going to do great things before the fight, but when the time come they skedaddled."
- (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
- (move or run away quickly) flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush or Thesaurus:flee
- French: déguerpir
- German: abhauen, türmen
- Italian: scappare
- Portuguese: dar no pé
- Russian: дра́пать
- Spanish: largarse, irse
skedaddle (plural skedaddles)
- (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
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