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  • noun Plural form of skurry.

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Examples

  • I extends teh floofy paw of frendship, and offers…erm….wat hab ai got in may cupbaords…..*skurries off searchin fer drinks an snacks fer sillybrashuns*

    As this picture clearly shows, there is a - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • My dad makes skurries for a living and my mama finks she is klown.

    Can’t sleep… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • And why should not we women, after all, contrive to make hurry-skurries, [you see how I correct myself as I go along] and make the world think our affairs a great part of the business of it, and that nothing can be done without us?

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Miss Prim starts up and skurries off in a state of the greatest alarm, lest “that person” should speak to her.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • At long intervals a farmer's gig rumbles over the bumpy, ill-paved square, or a native, with his head buried in his coat, peeps out of doors, skurries across the way, and vanishes.

    Auld Licht Idylls 1898

  • At long intervals a farmer's gig rumbles over the bumpy, ill-paved square, or a native, with his head buried in his coat, peeps out of doors, skurries across the way, and vanishes.

    Auld Licht Idyls 1898

  • So the winter drew on, -- the strange, beautiful Colorado winter, -- with weeks of golden sunshine broken by occasional storms of wind and sand, or by skurries of snow which made the plains white for a few hours and then vanished, leaving them dry and firm as before.

    Clover Susan Coolidge 1870

  • Prim starts up and skurries off in a state of the greatest alarm, lest

    Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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