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skedaddle
English
Etymology
19th century US - dramatically appearing and gaining prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”).
Possibly related to the Ancient Greek ???????? (skédasis, “scattering”), ????????? (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /sk??dæd?l/
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Verb
skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)
- (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
Synonyms
- (move or run away quickly): flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush or Thesaurus:flee
Translations
Noun
skedaddle (plural skedaddles)
- (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Fanciful 19th century American coinages
References
- 1897, Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris, editors, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to scud. To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)"
- Michael Quinion (7 February 2004) , “Skedaddle”, in World Wide Words
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roam
English
Etymology
From Middle English romen, from Old English r?mian, from Proto-Germanic *raim?n? (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h?reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ?r?man (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German r?m?n (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?m, IPA(key): /???m/
- (General American) enPR: r?m, IPA(key): /?o?m/
- Homophones: Rome
- Rhymes: -??m
Verb
roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)
- (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]
- Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]
- (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
- (transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
- 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
- At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.
- 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development
- (transitive) To range or wander over.
Synonyms
- (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Amor, Mora, Omar, Oram, Roma, moar, mora, roma
Portuguese
Verb
roam
- third-person plural present subjunctive of roer
- third-person plural imperative of roer
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