单词 | skedaddle |
释义 | skedaddlen. colloquial. a. A hasty or precipitate retreat or flight; a scurry. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away flemeOE flightc1175 fuge1436 fuite1499 fleec1560 fugacyc1600 tergiversationa1652 runaway1720 run1799 fugitation1823 skedaddling1863 skedaddle1870 lam1897 run-out1928 society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > retreat retreat1523 retire1548 retract1553 back-march1577 dismarch1600 dismarching1635 skedaddle1870 pullback1943 1870 M. Collins Vivian I. xvii. 267 There was a rapid skedaddle of small legs all in one direction. 1884 C. G. Gordon Jrnl. 1 Oct. in Jrnls. at Kartoum (1885) 90 One feels such a mean brute to go egging on men to fight, and then to let it end with a skedaddle. b. Without article. ΚΠ 1871 Daily News 27 Jan. Although the movement was directed by the noble sentiment of wisdom, it must be described by the undignified name of skedaddle. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Feb. 2/2 In advocating a policy of skedaddle he only represents himself. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2019). skedaddlev. colloquial. 1. intransitive. Of soldiers, troops, etc.: To retreat or retire hastily or precipitately; to flee. Originally U.S. military slang, introduced during the Civil War of 1861–5. ΚΠ 1861 N.Y. Tribune 10 Aug. 5/5 No sooner did the traitors discover their approach than they ‘skiddaddled’, (a phrase the Union boys up here apply to the good use the seceshers make of their legs in time of danger). 1862 in L. M. Post Soldiers' Lett. ii. xxxii. 90 As soon as the rebs saw our red breeches (the Zouaves) coming through the woods they skedaddled. 1863 W. H. Russell My Diary North & South II. 421 For their men skedaddled, and the Secession cavalry slipping after them, had a very pretty chase. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 246 The enemy skedaddled without coming to the scratch. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance xxvii. 260 So that those honest fellows..might have the less temptation thrown in their way to skedaddle. 2. a. In general use: To go away, leave, or depart hurriedly; to run away, ‘clear out’. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily fleec825 runOE swervea1225 biwevec1275 skip1338 streekc1380 warpa1400 yerna1400 smoltc1400 stepc1460 to flee (one's) touch?1515 skirr1548 rubc1550 to make awaya1566 lope1575 scuddle1577 scoura1592 to take the start1600 to walk off1604 to break awaya1616 to make off1652 to fly off1667 scuttle1681 whew1684 scamper1687 whistle off1689 brush1699 to buy a brush1699 to take (its, etc.) wing1704 decamp1751 to take (a) French leave1751 morris1765 to rush off1794 to hop the twig1797 to run along1803 scoot1805 to take off1815 speela1818 to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 absquatulize1829 mosey1829 absquatulate1830 put1834 streak1834 vamoose1834 to put out1835 cut1836 stump it1841 scratch1843 scarper1846 to vamoose the ranch1847 hook1851 shoo1851 slide1859 to cut and run1861 get1861 skedaddle1862 bolt1864 cheese it1866 to do a bunkc1870 to wake snakes1872 bunk1877 nit1882 to pull one's freight1884 fooster1892 to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892 smoke1893 mooch1899 to fly the coop1901 skyhoot1901 shemozzle1902 to light a shuck1905 to beat it1906 pooter1907 to take a run-out powder1909 blow1912 to buzz off1914 to hop it1914 skate1915 beetle1919 scram1928 amscray1931 boogie1940 skidoo1949 bug1950 do a flit1952 to do a scarper1958 to hit, split or take the breeze1959 to do a runner1980 to be (also get, go) ghost1986 society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly fleec825 warpa1400 wringc1400 bolt1575 decamp1751 mog1770 to hop the twig1797 to take (its, etc.) wing1806 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 vamoose1834 fade1848 skedaddle1862 to beat it1906 blow1912 to hop it1914 beetle1919 bug1950 jet1951 1862 Illustr. London News 24 May 540/3 I ‘skeedadled’ from the capital of the dis-United States. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxi. 260 Mamma, Major Grantly has—skedaddled. 1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour III. iii. 49 The middies swiftly creep over the seats and skedaddle. b. Of animals: To run off, stampede. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > stampede skedaddle1879 1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 166 There were several hundred elephants about, and they all skedaddled, making for the hills. 1888 J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 66 An untried elephant will not unnaturally turn tail and incontinently ‘skedaddle’ as hard as it can lay legs to the ground. 3. transitive. To spill (milk, etc.). dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > spill [verb (transitive)] spilla1340 bespill?1567 skedaddle1862 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > let out > spill shed?c1225 spilla1340 slop1557 skail1828 skedaddle1862 slob1894 1862 Ld. Hill in Times 13 Oct. 10/3 You blind buzzard, don't you see you are skedaddling all that milk? Derivatives skeˈdaddler n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away > one who runs away fugitive1382 runner1440 fleer1488 flyera1500 fugitour1533 runaway1534 runagate1539 fleeter1581 sure flight1599 runagadea1604 deserter?a1645 refugee1754 fly-away1838 skedaddler1864 lamster1904 the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > yielding to the enemy > one who yields in combat or deserts battlefield recreantc1425 skedaddler1864 chocolate-cream soldier1894 chocolate soldier1895 non-hero1924 1864 Index 9 June 359/3 If the emigration of skedaddlers from the field of battle continues to increase. 1869 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 507 Consolation to skedaddlers in general. Draft additions 1993 skeˈdaddling n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [noun] > flight or running away flemeOE flightc1175 fuge1436 fuite1499 fleec1560 fugacyc1600 tergiversationa1652 runaway1720 run1799 fugitation1823 skedaddling1863 skedaddle1870 lam1897 run-out1928 1863 C. H. Smith in Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) 13 May 2/1 But ther wer no panik, no skeedadlin. 1979 A. Sillitoe Storyteller i. ii. 26 He was even more ashamed of his panicky skedaddling than of having read his poetry. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1870v.1861 |
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