skedaddle

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (US, informal, intransitive) To move or run away quickly.
2. (regional, transitive) To spill; to scatter.

Noun

The act of running away; a scurrying off.

Sinónimos

run away

escape

flee

scurry

scram

scoot

make off

dart

🎯

decamp

fly

✈️

gallop

get a move on

hurry

hurtle

leave

play truant

race

run

shoot

speed

sprint

take off

tear

cut and run

zip

zoom

abscond

copout

absquatulate

beetle

🪲

bolt

career

charge

cut out

Traducións

abhauen

flüchten

déguerpir

largarse

türmen

irse

weglaufen

fliehen

s'enfuir

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/skɪˈdædəl/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: scathel

Herdado de Old English: *scaþol

Relativo a grego antigo: σκέδασις

In summary

First use appears c. 1861, in the New York Tribune. The word appeared and gained prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”). Possibly related to the Ancient Greek σκέδασις (skédasis, “scattering”), σκεδασμός (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat. It is possibly a corruption of "Let's get outa here".