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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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scuddle
verb
to hurry, hasten, scurry, particularly to avoid work:
The two lads had disappeared amangst the scuddlin thrang
[throng].
20-
.
etymology:
perhaps connected with Scots
scuddle
‘work in a messy way at domestic work’; attested by
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