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Scurry vs Scary - What's the difference?

scurry | scary |

As a verb scurry

is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

As an adjective scary is

causing or able to cause fright.

As a noun scary is

barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

scurry

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
  • * 1964 ,
    • Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

    Derived terms

    * scurry away * scurry off

    Anagrams

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    scary

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Causing or able to cause fright
    • The tiger's jaws were scary.
    She was hiding behind her pillow during the scary parts of the film.
  • (US, colloquial, dated) Subject to sudden alarm; nervous, jumpy.
    • (Whittier)
  • * 1916 , Texas Department of Agriculture, Bulletin (issues 47-57), page 150:
    • And let us say to these interests that, until the Buy-It-Made-In-Texas movement co-operates with the farmers, we are going to be a little scary of the snare.
    Synonyms
    * (causing fright) frightening

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal English .

    Noun

  • Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.

    • Anagrams

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