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Skedaddle vs Journey - What's the difference?

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Skedaddle is a related term of journey.


As verbs the difference between skedaddle and journey

is that skedaddle is to move or run away quickly while journey is to travel, to make a trip or voyage.

As a noun journey is

a set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

skedaddle

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To move or run away quickly.
  • The sheep skedaddled as soon as the shepherd’s dog came near .

    Synonyms

    * (move or run away quickly) flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost

    See also

    *

    References

    * 1897 Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris (editors), Universal Dictionary of the English Language'', v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to ''scud . To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)" * Fanciful 19th century American coinages

    journey

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
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  • (label) A day.
  • (label) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
  • (label) A day's work.
  • *:
  • *:But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)