different between skedaddle vs hasten
skedaddle
English
Etymology
19th century US - dramatically appearing and gaining 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 ???????? (skédasis, “scattering”), ????????? (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /sk??dæd?l/
- Rhymes: -æd?l
Verb
skedaddle (third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled)
- (informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- Then filled with inspiration he drove in his Buick, the busted muffler blasting in the country lanes and the great long car skedaddling dangerously on the curves. Lucky for the woodchucks they were already hibernating.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, pl. 122]:
- (transitive, regional) To spill; to scatter.
Synonyms
- (move or run away quickly): flee, vamoose, scat, take off, make tracks, get lost, kick rocks, hightail; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush or Thesaurus:flee
Translations
Noun
skedaddle (plural skedaddles)
- (informal) The act of running away; a scurrying off.
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Fanciful 19th century American coinages
References
- 1897, Hunter, Robert, and Charles Morris, editors, Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v4, p4291: "Etym. doubtful; perhaps allied to scud. To betake one's self hurriedly to flight; to run away as in a panic; to fly in terror. (A word of American origin.)"
- Michael Quinion (7 February 2004) , “Skedaddle”, in World Wide Words
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hasten
English
Etymology
Originally intransitive, from haste +? -en (verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?he?.s?n/
- Rhymes: -e?s?n
Verb
hasten (third-person singular simple present hastens, present participle hastening, simple past and past participle hastened)
- (intransitive) To move or act in a quick fashion.
- (transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.
- I would hasten my escape from the windy storm.
- c. 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III scene ii[1]:
- Hamlet:
- Bid the players make haste.
- Will you two help to hasten them?
- (transitive) To cause some scheduled event to happen earlier.
Synonyms
- (move in a quick fashion): dart, race; see also Thesaurus:move quickly
- (speed up): accelerate, quicken, speed up; see also Thesaurus:speed up
- (cause a scheduled event to happen earlier): hurry, rush, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Derived terms
- hastener
Related terms
- haste
Translations
Anagrams
- Athens, snathe, sneath, thanes
Basque
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): /(?)as?.ten/
Verb
hasten
- Present participle of hasi.
Danish
Noun
hasten c
- definite singular of hast
Finnish
Alternative forms
- hapsien
Noun
hasten
- Genitive plural form of hapsi.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hastn?]
- Hyphenation: has?ten
- Homophone: hassten
Verb
hasten (weak, third-person singular present hastet, past tense hastete, past participle gehastet, auxiliary sein)
- to hurry, to rush
Conjugation
Synonyms
- eilen
- rennen
- stürmen
Antonyms
- trödeln
- trotten
Derived terms
- hastend
- hastig
- herbeihasten
- forthasten
See also
- beschleunigen
- herbeieilen
- vorauseilen
- forteilen
- laufen
Further reading
- “hasten” in Duden online
Swedish
Noun
hasten
- definite singular of hast
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