Scurry vs Hobble - What's the difference?
scurry | hobble | Related terms |
To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
(en noun) (usually in plural )
Short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
An unsteady, off-balance step.
To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
To walk lame, or unevenly.
* Dryden
(figurative) To move roughly or irregularly.
* Jeffreys
To perplex; to embarrass.
Scurry is a related term of hobble.
As verbs the difference between scurry and hobble
is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper while hobble is to fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.As a noun hobble is
short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
Derived terms
* scurry away * scurry offAnagrams
*hobble
English
Noun
Synonyms
* tether (rope)Verb
- (Charles Dickens)
- The friar was hobbling the same way too.
- The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
