scuttle
/ˈskʌt.l̩/ verb C2- To move hastily, to scurry.
He/she/it scuttles · Past scuttled · Past participle scuttled · -ing form scuttling
Verb forms
- Base form
- scuttle
- He/she/it
- scuttles
- Past
- scuttled
- Past participle
- scuttled
- -ing form
- scuttling
From the library
Who are we, the Gidur-log [the jackal people], to pick and choose?” He scuttled to the back of the cave, where he found the bone of a buck with some meat on it, and sat cracking the end merrily.
He could fluff up his tail till it looked like a bottle brush, and his war cry as he scuttled through the long grass was: “Rikk-tikk-tikki-tikki-tchk!”
“This is a splendid hunting-ground,” he said, and his tail grew bottle-brushy at the thought of it, and he scuttled up and down the garden, snuffing here and there till he heard very sorrowful voices in a thorn-bush.
Rikki-tikki smashed two eggs, and tumbled backward down the melon-bed with the third egg in his mouth, and scuttled to the veranda as hard as he could put foot to the ground.
Other matches
Learn scuttle in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.