scutter

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: scut=ter

CIDE DICTIONARY

scutter, v. i. [Cf. Scuttle, v. i.].

 To run quickly; to scurry; to scuttle.
"A mangy little jackal . . . cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scutter, v. & n.
--v.intr. colloq. scurry.
--n. the act or an instance of scuttering.

Etymology

perh. alt. of SCUTTLE(2)