scutter
/ˈskʌtə
/chiefly British
verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]
(Especially of a small animal) move hurriedly with short steps: a little dog scuttered up from the cabin...
- A traitorous spider scuttered along a branch sending Tale out of the bush and towards the porch.
- Its not a reflection from the torch, its not an insect scuttering by and its not a particle of dust.
- As soon as her body lay horizontally, spiders and insects and worms came scuttering forward, and began to eat her skin.
noun [in singular]
An act or sound of scuttering: there was no sound in the wood, no scutter of tiny beast
