hurry-skurry

adverb

Roget 684: with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste etc. adj.; apace etc. (swiftly) 274; amain^†; all at once etc. (instantaneously) 113; at short notice &c.; immediately etc. (early) 132; posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.    hastily, precipitately etc. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry^†, holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu [Fr.].    by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.    ... show more

noun

Roget 825: excitability, impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness etc. adj.; turbulence; impatience, intolerance, nonendurance^†; irritability etc. (irascibility) 901; itching etc. (desire) 865; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation etc. (irregular motion) 315.    trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry^†, thrill etc. (feeling) 821; state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.    passion, excitement, flush, heat; fever, heat; fire, flame, fume, blood boiling; tumult; effervescence, ebullition; boiling over; whiff, gust, story, tempest; scene, breaking out, burst, fit, paroxysm, explosion; outbreak, outburst; agony.    violence etc. 173; fierceness etc. adj.; rage, fury, furor, furore^†, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy^†, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger etc. 900.    fascination, infatuation, fanaticism; Quixotism, Quixotry; tete montee [Fr.].    ... show more

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