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Definition: Scuttle |
ScuttleNoun1. Container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire. 2. An entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship. Verb1. To move about or proceed hurriedly: "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scuttle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
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Literature | Scuttle To scuttle a ship is to bore a hole in it in order to make it sink. Rather strangely, this word is from the same root as our word shut or bolt (Saxon scyttel, a lock, bolt, or bar). It was first applied to a hole in a roof with a door or lid, then to a hatchway in the deck of a ship with a lid, then to a hole in the bottom of a ship plugged up; then comes the verb to pull out the plug, and leave the hole for the admission of water. Scuttle (of coals, etc.) is the Anglo-Saxon, scutel, a basket. "The Bergen [Norway] fishwomen ... in every direction are coming ... with their scuttles swinging on their arms. In Bergen fish is never carried in any other way."- H. H. Jackson: Glimpses of Three Coasts, pt. iii. p. 235. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SCUTTLE. To scuttle off; to run away. To scuttle a ship; to make a hole in her bottom in order to sink her. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ScuttleSynonyms: coal scuttle (n), hatchway (n), opening (n), scamper (v), scurry (v), skitter (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Haste | Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express. |
Receptacle | Vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon. |
Velocity | Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scuttle |
| English words defined with "scuttle": bumbling, bungling, butterfingered ♦ ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed ♦ left-handed ♦ Scuddle, Scuttled, Scuttling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scuttle": Misnomers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "scuttle": skillet. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Pimple Meets Captain Scuttle (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | View in an officer's cabin, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note open deadlight scuttle in the overhead, wooden joinerwork, watertight door at left, lamp on the desk, and artwork behind the desk chair depicting a monitor at sea. Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Scuttle" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.52% of the time. "Scuttle" is used about 66 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 51.52% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 15.15% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 66 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scuttle": coal scuttle ♦ scuttle away ♦ scuttle away! ♦ scuttle butt ♦ scuttle cask ♦ scuttle in ♦ scuttle off. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scuttle": scuttle-butt, scuttle-free. | |
Ending with "scuttle": coal-scuttle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scuttle | 28 |
hatches scuttle | 15 |
scuttle roof | 6 |
disney scuttle | 5 |
coal scuttle | 4 |
little mermaid scuttle | 4 |
scuttle side | 3 |
antique coal scuttle | 3 |
buttin scuttle tab | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scuttle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kovë qymyri (hod), fundos anije (sink a ship), baxhë (dormer, manhole, skylight, slot). (various references) | |
Arabic | كوة (aperture, hole, loophole, louver, opening, skylight, small window), قفة, غرق سفينة (shipwreck, sink, sinking), تشتت (disband, disperse, dispersion, squander, stampede), سلة (basket, crib, skip, wire), عدو سريع (sprint), عدا (besides, chase, course, forswear, heel, lope, pace, patter, run, scurry, sprint, spurt), إشاعات (gossip, scandal), أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, defeat, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, torpedo), دلو الفحم, باب في السفينة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разрушавам собственото си дело, кофа за въглища (coal scuttle, hod), офейкване (decampment, guy), оттеглям се (adjourn, back, back away, disengage, draw back, draw off, draw out, fall back, fall off, give back, give way to, pull back, recede, repair, retire, retreat, retrocede, retrograde, run out, seclude, step down, withdraw), отказвам се от мандат, люк (manhole, sun-roof), бягане (cut, run, running, scamper, scurry), прозорче с капак на стена, прозорче с капак на покрив, пробивам (bore, break through, broach, hole, jump, nip, perforate, pip, prick, rupture, sink, smash in), измъкване (elusion, extrication, guy, sneak), дезертиране (defection), дезертирам (desert). (various references) | |
Chinese | 天窗 (louver, Louvre, skylight). (various references) | |
Czech | kbelík na uhlí, cupitat (patter, trip). (various references) | |
Danish | kulspand (coal bucket, coal scuttle), bundventil (boot, sea cock). (various references) | |
Dutch | lichtrand (deadlight, porthole), kolenkit (coal-scuttle), kolenemmer (coal bucket, coal scuttle). (various references) | |
Farsi | کج بیل (Hoe, Scoop, Shovel, Spud), گام تند, گریز (Allusion, Desertion, Digression, Escape, Evasion, Flight, Guy, Jink, Scamper, Subterfuge, Truancy), سوراخ کردن 1 (Bore, Broach, Delve, Gimlet, Gore, Impale, Notch, Perforate, Punch, Puncture, Slot, Spit, Stab, Steek, Stick, Thrust, Transfix), سطل ذغال , عقب نشینی (Recess, Retreat), جاذغالی , روزنه (Aperture, Hatch, Loophole, Orifice, Outlet, Peep, Peephole, Pore, Window), دریچه (Choke, Closure, Hatch, Lid, Porthole, Slacker, Valve, Vent, Wicket, Window), دررفتن (Abscond, Escape), بسرعت دویدن . (various references) | |
Finnish | luukku (door, hatch, shutter), kouru (channel, gutter, spout), huuva, höyrykupu. (various references) | |
French | seau charbon (coal scuttle), saborder. (various references) | |
German | ruinieren (blast, break, destroy, dilapidate, Mar, mess up, ruin, spoil, to ruin, undo, wreck), Kohleneimer (coal scuttle). (various references) | |
Greek | κάδος άνθρακα (coal bucket, coal scuttle), κουβάς άνθρακα (coal bucket, coal scuttle), σχάρα θέρμανσης, μετάλλινοσ κάδοσ δι' άνθρακασ, φινιστρίνι (bull's eye, deadlight, inspection window, porthole), φυγή (flight, hegira, rout), φεύγω τρέχων, φεγγίτησ (dormer, dormitory, hatch, skylight, transom window), τρυπώ πλοίον, θυρίσ πλοίου. (various references) | |
Hebrew | פתח" (access, gateway, opening), אשקף (porthole), "לי לפחם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szenesvödör (coal scoop, coal scuttle, hod, scoop), szeneskanna. (various references) | |
Indonesian | membenamkan (drown, immerse, sink, suppress). (various references) | |
Italian | secchio per carbone, rovinare (be ruined, blast, blight, break, collapse, crash, damn, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disfigure, do in, kill, nip, pull down, put pay, ruin, shatter, spoil, undo, waste, wreck), portellino (porthole, sidescuttle), autoaffondare (scupper). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 逃れ出る (to scuttle off, to take flight), 炭取り (charcoal scuttle). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すみとり (charcoal scuttle), のがれでる (to scuttle off, to take flight). (various references) | |
Korean | 스커틀. (various references) | |
Manx | towl cooylley, sooill lhuingey, cur fo (let down, sink, tackle person about, weather), cruick gheayil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttlescay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vigia (guard, household troops, keeper, look-out, night watch, overlooker, porthole, taskmaster, tender, tenter, viewer, vigilante gang, ward, watch, watchman), postigo (peephole, wicket, window), passo rápido, chaminé (fireplace, hearth, lamp-chimney, smokestack), balde de carvão (coalscuttle), balde (bailer, bucket, pail, tub), alçapão (drop, noose, pitfall, snare, trapdoor). (various references) | |
Romanian | o lua la sãnãtoasa (betake oneself to one's heels, cut and run, give leg-bail, show a clean pair of heels, skip), mers grãbit (scamper, trot), fugi în grabã mare, fugã (be quick, bolt, bunk, career, course, escape, flight, fugue, getaway, hurry on, leak, leg-bail, lick, look sharp, make haste, run, running, rush, scamper, scurry, slip, stampede), coş de cãrbuni. (various references) | |
Russian | стремительно бежать, торопливая походка (trot), ведро для угля, затоплять (deluge, drown, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, submerge, submerse, swamp, waterlog). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vedro za ugalj, potopiti brod, plitka korpa, otvor (aperture, gape, hatch, hole, mouth, opening, orifice, port, vent, ventage), juriti (barrel, chase, run, rush, scud, scurry), cupkati (hop, jig), cupkanje (hopping, tripping). (various references) | |
Spanish | trampilla (mushroom, needle, valve piece), huida (bolt, break, desertion, escape, exodus, flight, lam, scurry, shy), escotillón (hatch), escotilla (hatch, hatchway, trap), desbaratar (debunk, mock, smash, thwart, wreck), cubo de carbón (coal hod, coalscuttle), correr (blow, chase, draw, flow, gallop, go about, go around, go it, go round, hare, hie, hurry, lap, nip, pour, publish, race, run, run along, scour, scud, scurry, shoot, slide, stream, travel, zap), cesta (basket, bin, creel, skep), barrenar (bore, drill), arruinar (bane, bankrupt, beggar, blast, blight, break, dilapidate, leak, mess up, murder, ruin, tear, throw over, wash out, wreck). (various references) | |
Swedish | ventil (throttle, tube, valve, ventilator). (various references) | |
Turkish | sepet (basket, hamper, skep), sıvışma (bunk, decampment, french leave, skedaddle, wing), tüymek (bolt, bunk, flee, hook it, make a bolt for it, make oneself scarce, pull out, sheer off, skedaddle, skip out, slink off, slip off, take a powder, take flight, take wing), motor kapağını karosere bağlayan parça, lomboz (bull's eye, dead light, port, porthole), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, take flight, travel, walk off), kaçma (break, bunk, elopement, escape, flight, getaway, lapse, scamper), kömür kovası (hod, skep), deniz musluğunu açıp batırmak, delik açarak batırmak, ambar kapağı (hatch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | квапливо тікати, кваплива хода, затопити судно, люк (hatch, hatchway, heck, manhole, trap, trap door), поспішна втеча. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự ra đi hối hả, thóc, mái nh (roof), lỗ (hole, orifice, socket, vent), dáng đi hấp tấp sự chạy trốn vội vã. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scutella. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | escotilla. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scuttle": scuttlebutt, scuttlebutts, scuttled, scuttles. (additional references) | |
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"Scuttle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scotale, scutellum, Scuttler, skuttle, sutle, Sutlej, sutlet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scuttle" (pronounced sku"tul) |
| 4 | -u" t u l | subtle, rebuttal, shuttle, unsubtle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, sentimental, settle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutlets, cuttles. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: culets, cutest, cutlet, cuttle. | |
-2 letters: celts, clues, culet, cults, cutes, luces, lutes, scute, tules. | |
-3 letters: cels, celt, clue, cues, cult, cute, cuts, ecus, lest, lets, luce, lues, lust, lute, scut, sect, sett, slue, stet, suet, tels, test, tets, tule, tuts. | |
-4 letters: cel, cue, cut, ecu, els, let, leu, sec, sel, set, sue, tel, tet. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: clutters, cuittles, culottes, lettuces, scuttled, scuttles. | |
+2 letters: octuplets. | |
+3 letters: auscultate, courtliest, cultivates, cuttlefish, fluctuates, reluctates, scutellate, testicular, unclutters. | |
+4 letters: actualities, articulates, auscultated, auscultates, capitulates, colatitudes, cuttlebones, ductilities, gesticulant, gesticulate, reticulates, sansculotte, scutellated, scuttlebutt, shuttlecock, tactfulness, translucent, turtlebacks, turtlenecks, ultrasecret. | |
+5 letters: acculturates, cocultivates, consultative, coquettishly, counterblast, counterplots, counterstyle, curtailments, cutabilities, cuttlefishes, destructible, electrocutes, electrotonus, elocutionist, factualities, gesticulated, gesticulates, gesticulator, intercluster, matriculates, meticulosity, neutralistic, particulates, recultivates, reluctations, sansculottes, scuttlebutts, sextuplicate, shuttlecocks, telecommutes, viticultures. | |
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