scutter
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of scutter
First recorded in 1775–85; variant of scuttle 2
Example Sentences
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These venomous pencil-length arthropods scutter beneath the leaves of East Asian and Australian forests, their black, multisegmented bodies and bright red pincers hidden from view.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 12, 2023
The rats, perhaps, that scutter in the wainscot.
From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude
I wondered what was up that he should look so scared, and scutter away as though the deuce was after him; I wondered whether he had quarreled with Afy.
From East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
But every boy, even the valiant Johnny Trumbull, was gone in a mad scutter.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
From the door he watched the man scutter down the long, long corridor out of sight.
From Zero Data by Saphro, Charles
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