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/ˈskʌtə(ɹ)/ · verb
(chiefly of small animals) To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter..
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.”
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.
Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.
Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter. Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter.
Use scutter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scutter means (chiefly of small animals) To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.
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