scutter — Dicionário de inglês

Verbo

1. To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

   Uso

   • of small animals

   Exemplos

   We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.

   I scuttered all the way to Dallory, and scuttered back again ; and I don’t think I stopped to speak to a single soul, but Timothy Wilks.”

   Mais exemplos (4)

   A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.

   These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.

   When the birds, especially the starlings, ate them in vast quantities, the results were often spectacular — they scuttered everywhere and over everything.

   Red Finger’s gun was still in his hand. He lifted it, and furred rodents scuttered away at the movement. He aimed the weapon carefully at the front of the dark truck body, low down.

Substantivo

1. A hasty run.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

Substantivo

1. Thin excrement.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.

Verbo

1. To void thin excrement.

   Palavras relacionadas

   Web scutter

   Exemplos

   Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter. Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter.

   Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.