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Sun 5 Aug, 2012 07:41 am
When a duck moves away quickly to avoid being caught, what is the word I should use? Can I use 'scuries' or 'runs'?
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
Is this a winged duck?
Flew or paddled furiously.
@tanguatlay,
Furthermore, the word
scurried implies a land animal like a rat
scurrying.
Winged animals, like birds,
flap furiously or race off.
@tanguatlay,
is it moving away in the water/air/land?
different words would be appropriate in each case
@tanguatlay,
skedaddle or high-tailed it.
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
scuries --> scurries
What Beth said.
Thanks to all of you. As for 'scurries', JTT, thanks for the correction. It was a typo.
@izzythepush,
skedaddled scampering sharpishly
@spendius,
Or you could just say it fucked off sharpish.
@izzythepush,
I was thinking, "quack the sound barrier": but no, that's too contrived.
@ossobuco,
How about " tackling the round derriere"? I've seen a few duckies skedaddle scampering sharpishly near tickling sticks.
@tanguatlay,
Maybe "waddled quickly away"
....and before we knew it the duck ducked out.
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