scutter
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of scutter
First recorded in 1775–85; variant of scuttle 2
Example Sentences
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These venomous pencil-length arthropods scutter beneath the leaves of East Asian and Australian forests, their black, multisegmented bodies and bright red pincers hidden from view.
From Science Magazine
What’s more, he and his colleagues reported last month at the virtual meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology that they have created a centipede robot that might one day scutter through farmers’ fields to take out troublesome weeds.
From Science Magazine
You can make a handful of decisions each turn — whether that’s searching a dumpster for supplies or talking to a fellow survivor about joining you — after which you wait for the post-apocalyptic creepy crawlies to scutter about.
From The Verge
They watched him pull himself out beside a flowering clump of figwort, gripping one of the tough stems in his teeth, shake a shower of drops out of his fur and scutter into the alder bushes.
From Literature
As Scutter rattled off facts, identifying and describing each of the dinosaurs, it reminded me of my own childhood enchantment.
From Washington Post
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