scutter

verb

1. To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

   “We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.”

   “I scuttered all the way to Dallory, and scuttered back again ; and I don’t think I stopped to speak to a single soul, but Timothy Wilks.””

   “A mangy little jackal […] cocked up his ears and tail, and scuttered across the shallows.”

   “These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.”

   “When the birds, especially the starlings, ate them in vast quantities, the results were often spectacular — they scuttered everywhere and over everything.”

2. To void thin excrement.

   “Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter. Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter.”

   “Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.”

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A hasty run.
2. (countable, uncountable)Thin excrement.

   “Cows were always scuttering: they left mounds and trails of scutter all over the place.”