Scutter vs Scurry - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scutter and scurry

is that scutter is to void thin excrement while scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

is thin excrement.

(en noun)

Thin excrement.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), (Telemachus episode):

Scutter! he cried thickly.

(en verb)

To void thin excrement.

* 1565 , Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus :

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

To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

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

* bullscutter * scutterer

(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.

* scurry away * scurry off