"scutter" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves, page 74:",
          "text": "Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.",
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        "Thin excrement."
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        "A hasty run."
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      "ipa": "/ˈskʌtə(ɹ)/"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ʌtə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scutter"
}

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      "word": "bullscutter"
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      "word": "scutterer"
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          "ref": "1565, Alois Brandl, editor, King Daryus:",
          "text": "Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.\nHere, take some, it will make thee to scutter.",
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          "ref": "2001, Ciaran O'Driscoll, A Runner Among Falling Leaves, page 74:",
          "text": "Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.",
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        "To void thin excrement."
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          "text": "We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.",
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          "ref": "1886, Mrs. Henry Wood, Bessy Rane, Richard Bentley & Son, page 122:",
          "text": "I scuttered all the way to Dallory, and scuttered back again ; and I don’t think I stopped to speak to a single soul, but Timothy Wilks.”",
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        {
          "ref": "1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:",
          "text": "These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Anthony Holten, Of Other Days, [self-published], page 122:",
          "text": "When the birds, especially the starlings, ate them in vast quantities, the results were often spectacular — they scuttered everywhere and over everything.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Arthur Leo Zagat, The Red Finger Pulp Mystery Megapack: 12 Tales of the Masked Hero, Wildside Press, page 61:",
          "text": "Red Finger’s gun was still in his hand. He lifted it, and furred rodents scuttered away at the movement. He aimed the weapon carefully at the front of the dark truck body, low down.",
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        "To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter."
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        "(chiefly of small animals) To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter."
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  "word": "scutter"
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        "Thin excrement."
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        "A hasty run."
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          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1886, Mrs. Henry Wood, Bessy Rane, Richard Bentley & Son, page 122:",
          "text": "I scuttered all the way to Dallory, and scuttered back again ; and I don’t think I stopped to speak to a single soul, but Timothy Wilks.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 November, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:",
          "text": "A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:",
          "text": "These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Anthony Holten, Of Other Days, [self-published], page 122:",
          "text": "When the birds, especially the starlings, ate them in vast quantities, the results were often spectacular — they scuttered everywhere and over everything.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Arthur Leo Zagat, The Red Finger Pulp Mystery Megapack: 12 Tales of the Masked Hero, Wildside Press, page 61:",
          "text": "Red Finger’s gun was still in his hand. He lifted it, and furred rodents scuttered away at the movement. He aimed the weapon carefully at the front of the dark truck body, low down.",
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        "(chiefly of small animals) To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter."
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