E.g.'We've been screwing around, watching TV, drinking, playing pool.'Īdj. E.g.'I screwed around all through my teens and only stopped when I got married.' Ģ. E.g.'Yeah I think they like each other, they screwed all night and kept us awake with their noise.' E.g.'He's got the screaming abdabs since failing his driving exam 6 times.' Cf. E.g.'The crowd was screaming blue murder and baying for the head of Donald Trump, who they blamed for the death of their families and children.' To make an outcry of anger or exasperation. A slovenly dressed person, a dirty person, perhaps of low intelligence and having little culture. E.g.'It's my own fault the cat scrammed me, I was teasing it.' E.g.'Strewth, my head's scrambled from all those drugs.'Īlso applies to one's hearing, E.g.'What did he say ? My ears were on scramble.' * Derived from the name of a local stew and an abb. A native or inhabitant of Liverpool, and the dialect they speak. To achieve a liason with a sexually desirable person. E.g.'We got caught scopping stones at this man's greenhouse.' E.g.'I haven't got a scooby why she went into a rage, I was only 1 hour late for dinner.' Rhyming slang on scooby doo, the cartoon character. General insult for someone who acts contemptuously. E.g.'Geoff's so sad, getting his tongue pierced just because it's fashionable.'Ģ. She was sleeping around and spending all my money.'Īdj. E.g.'I sacked the relationship off at the end of last year. I was consistently late arriving at work in the mornings.' E.g.'I was sacked because of my poor time keeping. E.g.'I've been on hundreds of sabbing days.' An act of sabotage, usually with regards to animal rights and other ethical campaigns. E.g.'We're off sabbing the ICI animal labs in Cheshire tomorrow so bring your lawyer's phone number.' The 'sab'/'sabbing' terms gained prominence during the 1980s with the increased activity in animal rights and hunt saboteurs. ( informal ) The act of running away a scurrying off.Noun.Swedish: sticka (sv), pysa (sv), dra (sv), kila (sv), rusa (sv), springa (sv).Serbo-Croatian: ( reflexive (+ accusative) ) razbježati (sh).

Hungarian: megfutamodik (hu), elszalad (hu), elinal (hu), meglép (hu)īokmål: stikke av (no), pigge av, stikke (no).Dutch: vluchten (nl), wegstuiven (nl), het op een lopen zetten.( informal, intransitive, US ) To move or run away quickly.Skedaddle ( third-person singular simple present skedaddles, present participle skedaddling, simple past and past participle skedaddled) ( Received Pronunciation, US ) IPA ( key): /skɪˈdædəl/.

Used even earlier in the American Revolution, by Tallmadge in December of 1777, '.only to find out they had already heard the news and skedaddled.' Possibly related to the Ancient Greek σκέδασις ( skédasis, “ scattering ” ), σκεδασμός ( skedasmós, “ dispersion ” ). 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 ” ).

WOTD – 28 January 2008 Etymology ġ9th century US - dramatically appearing and gaining prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use.

Skedaddle urban dictionary