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Scutter

Scutter \Scut"ter\, v. i. [Cf. Scuttle, v. i.] To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle. [Prov. Eng.]

A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.
--Kipling.

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scutter

n. Thin excrement. vb. 1 To void thin excrement. 2 To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

Usage examples of "scutter".

Pull those names out of the flow chart and what remained was Ray Scutter floating over the various department heads like a loose balloon.

Ray Scutter would have made an interesting subject, Chris thought, but he was supposed to be hard to approach, and his public pronouncements were so predictably banal that better journalists than Chris had written him off as a lost cause.

There was a stiff dignity in the way she carried herself, an implicit rejection of whatever it was Ray Scutter had said to her.

Chris put the vehicle in drive and pulled away, not before Scutter aimed a kick at the rear bumper.

They talked Blind Lake politics, including some speculation about Ray Scutter, and they worried over the perennial question of the siege.

I thought maybe we should call Ray Scutter or someone in Administration and tell them about it.

Ray Scutter, to the effect that he was a lousy manager and an asshole to deal with.

He realized he was afraid of Ray Scutter, and not just because Ray was executive management.

So I ask myself whether Ray Scutter might be right, whether Blind Lake has been infected with a contagious madness.

The Modesto and Fuchs truck had crushed her between the door and the frame and had then bounced back several yards, leaving Bethany Scutter in the street with her abdomen opened like the middle pages of a blue and red book.

Crossbank, Blind Lake, Ray Scutter, or the global events of the previous year.

Kyle opened the ballast, and the scutter surfaced in a shadow, bobbing.

Flying the scutter and planting explosives was as technical as she got.

She ducked into the car, which somehow reminded her of the scutter, and it accelerated away.

Her ex-husband is administrator and Grade-A prick Ray Scutter, who believes that intelligent species cannot possibly understand each other and that life is actually a stain on the Universe.