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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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wobble
English
Etymology
From earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?bl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?bl?/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
Noun
wobble (plural wobbles)
- An unsteady motion.
- A tremulous sound.
- (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep
- (genetics) A variation in the third codon that codes for a specific aminoacid
Synonyms
- (unsteady motion): jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble
- (tremulous sound): quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato
Translations
Verb
wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)
- (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.
- (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.
- (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.
- (transitive) To cause to wobble.
Synonyms
- (move with an uneven or rocking motion): judder, shake, shudder, tremble
- (quaver): quaver, quiver, tremble
- (vacillate): falter, vacillate, waffle, waver
- (cause to wobble): jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- beblow
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