scuddle
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of scuddle
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
“A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.”
“around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
“A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.”
“around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.”
- (Scotland, intransitive)To drudge.
- (Scotland, transitive)To wash or cleanse.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From scud + -le (frequentative). Compare scuttle (“to hurry”).
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