Use Scurryfunge in a sentence

1. (Verb) Old English; to rush around cleaning when company is on their way over. Usage: I Scurryfunge when I see my mother in law coming over.

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2. The OED does have an entry for the word as 'scurrifunge' (cross-referencing the form 'Scurryfunge'). The rather amusing etymology given is A word of jocular formation, used in various senses with little or no discoverable connection

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3. Scurryfunge A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time he/she knocks on the door

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4. -John Gould's Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, and Wazzats, 1975 My hectic Scurryfunge was the result of a missed call from Bob saying he'd come over.

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5. The best way to Scurryfunge is to have less to start with. After several moves close together and a toddler, and then another toddler, I have gotten rid of a lot of our stuff

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6. The word Scurryfunge popped up on HH this week, defined as a verb meaning “to hastily tidy a house”: That being said, when it first appeared in the language in the late eighteenth century, Scurryfunge originally meant “to beat” or “lash”, and later “to rub” or “to scrub clean”.

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7. A Word for the Weekend: Scurryfunge It’s been a while since I did A Word for the Weekend

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8. Scurryfunge: a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door (1882) flippercanorious : elegant (1934) irrisory : addicted to …

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9. Scurryfunge The time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over. 54.

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10. Scurryfunge is an old English word meaning to rush around cleaning when you see company is on their way over

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11. Scurryfunge pronunciation with meanings, synonyms, antonyms, translations, sentences and more

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12. Scurryfunge (v.) The mad dash you do to clean up before company arrives

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13. That girl at the party was such a tease, she only gave me a Scurryfunger

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14. Scurryfunge [SKUHR-ee-fuhnj](v.)-To rush around cleaning when company is on their way over.-A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor

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15. Scurryfunge (v.) middle English; to rush around cleaning frantically, when company is on their way to your home.

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16. IS YOUR HOUSEKEEPING STYLE Scurryfunge? - Everybody does it, but few people know there's a word for it

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18. Scurryfunge: a hasty cleaning of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door

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20. Scurryfunge (v.) middle English; to rush around cleaning frantically, when company is on their way to your home.

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21. I See A Lot Of ‘Scurryfunge’ Happening In The Days Ahead April 14, 2020 by admin …I don’t know what it was like where you grew up, but in Ireland we had ‘the good room.’

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22. Scurryfunge: the time you run around cleaning frantically right before company comes over

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23. Scurryfunge is an old American dialect word meaning to hastily tidy a house before a visitor arrives

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24. Her warm witty tweets reintroducing us to the words that we all need more in our lives from Scurryfunge (frantically tidying up by shoving things into a cupboard just before visitors arrive) to apricity, (the warmth of the sun on a winter's day) are among the internet's most shared - now she's turning them into a linguistic almanac.

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26. "That last-minute cleaning frenzy before company arrives" can be summed up thusly: "Scurryfunge." Black sweatshirt is 50/50 cotton blend, T-shirt is preshrunk 100% cotton.

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27. Gammerstang commented on the word Scurryfunge (noun) - A hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor and the time she knocks on the door.--John Gould's Maine Lingo: Boiled Owls, Billdads, and Wazzats, 1975

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28. Scurryfunge We take on American English

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29. Is your housekeeping style Scurryfunge? Everybody does it, but few people know there's a word for it

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30. "That last-minute cleaning frenzy before company arrives" can be summed up thusly: "Scurryfunge." Edit perfect gift for anyone who is never at a loss for words and always wins at Scrabble.

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31. “Scurryfunge”: it’s the act of furiously tidying your house because you’ve got company or a hot date coming

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32. Company and the art of Scurryfunge

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33. These tiny workhorses are lightweight and compact, meaning they’re easy to store, and you can quickly grab one when your pet knocks over some Cheerios or you need to Scurryfunge (i.e., quickly

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34. Is your housekeeping style Scurryfunge? Everybody does it, but few people know there's a word for it

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35. "That last-minute cleaning frenzy before company arrives" can be summed up thusly: "Scurryfunge." Edit perfect gift for anyone who is never at a loss for words and always wins at Scrabble.

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