英和和英

語源

From a- +‎ scurry

形容詞

ascurry (not comparable)

1. Scurrying; filled (with scurrying people または animals).
   • 1988, William Horwood, Duncton Quest, London: Arrow, 1989, Part 2, Chapter 19, p. 311,^[1]

     […] the darkness beyond the wood that night seemed ascurry and fractious,

   • 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, 1994, Part 2, p. 150,^[2]

     a ship […] with sailors ascurry from and to below

   • 1998, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Dark Sleeper, New York: Ace Books, 2000, Book 1, Chapter 11, p. 133,^[3]

     […] gulls veering and looping, cormorants guarding their nests in the high rocks, sandpipers ascurry at the water’s edge, pelicans skimming and plummeting, coastal jackdaws grubbing for dainties.