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scurries

[skur-ee, skuhr-ee]

Origin

verb (used without object)

1.

to go or move quickly or in haste.

verb (used with object)

2.

to send hurrying along.

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noun

3.

a scurrying rush: the scurry of little feet on the stairs.

4.

a short run or race.

Origin:
1800–10; extracted from hurry-scurry

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scurry

1810, perhaps from hurry-scurry (1732), a reduplication of hurry.

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"Run fast, stand still. This, the lesson from lizards. For all writers. Observe almost any survival creature, you see the same. Jump, run, freeze. In the ability to flick like an eyelash, crack like a whip, vanish like steam, here this instant, gone the next—life teems the earth. And when that life is not rushing to escape, it is playing statues to do the same. See the hummingbird, there, not there. As thought arises and blinks off, so this thing of summer vapor; the clearing of a cosmic throat, the fall of a leaf. And where it was—a whisper. What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping. In between the scurries and flights, what? Be a chameleon, ink- blend, chromosome change with the landscape. Be a pet rock, lie with the dust, rest in the rainwater in the filled barrel by the drainspout outside your grandparents' window long ago."

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