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  • 101hurry-skurry — I. n. (Colloq.) Flutter, flurry, agitation, confusion, hurry, fluttering haste, great confusion. II. ad. Confusedly, pell mell, helter skelter, headlong, with a huddling rush, heels over head …

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  • 102hurry — v 1. move quickly, hasten, lose no time, rush, make haste, Scot. swith, Scot. whirry, Literary. haste; race, scurry, skip, spurt, whisk, run, sprint; press on, push on, ride hard, canter, trot, gallop, lope, clap spurs to one s horse; shoot, tear …

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  • 103hurry —    Āwīwī.   Also: āwiki, wiki, ho owiki, wikiwiki, alawiki, elewiki, māmā, pūlale, ho opūlale, lale, ho olale, ho ohikiwawe, uheheu, ho okalalī, ho okāholo, pupuahulu, kī, kāpaepae, au, ho āuau, ho okanahē, ho oui, pa apa ana, pākū ei, pulelua.… …

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  • 104hurry — see hurry no man’s cattle …

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  • 105hurry — [16] The earliest known occurrences of the verb hurry are in the plays of Shakespeare, who uses it quite frequently. This suggests that it may have been a word well known to him in his native West Midland dialect, but it is not clear whether it… …

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  • 106hurry call — noun : an emergency summons * * * hurry call, a call for immediate help in an emergency …

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  • 107hurry-durry — adjective Etymology: reduplication of hurry (II) obsolete, of weather : windy and rainy …

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  • 108hurry-burry — I. |həri|bəri noun ( es) Etymology: reduplication (influenced by hurly burly) of hurry (II) Scotland : hurly burly …

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  • 109hurry-scurry — n., adj., & adv. n. disorderly haste. adj. & adv. in confusion. Etymology: jingling redupl. of HURRY …

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  • 110To hurry up — Hurry Hur ry, v. i. To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry. [1913 Webster] {To hurry up}, to make haste. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] …

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