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▪ I. skedaddle, n. colloq.|skɪˈdæd(ə)l|
[f. the vb.]
A hasty or precipitate retreat or flight; a scurry.
1870M. Collins Vivian I. xvii. 267 There was a rapid skedaddle of small legs all in one direction. 1884Gordon Jrnls. (1885) 128 One feels such a mean brute to go egging on men to fight, and then to let it end with a skedaddle.
b. Without article.
1871Daily News 27 Jan., Although the movement was directed by the noble sentiment of wisdom, it must be described by the undignified name of skedaddle. 1885Pall Mall G. 14 Feb. 2/2 In advocating a policy of skedaddle he only represents himself.
▪ II. skedaddle, v. colloq.|skɪˈdæd(ə)l|
Also skeedadle, skiddaddle.
[prob. a fanciful formation.
‘Said to be of Swedish and Danish origin, and to have been in common use for several years throughout the Northwest, in the vicinity of immigrants from those nations’ (Webster, 1864); but there are no forms in Sw. or Da. sufficiently near to be seriously taken into account. There is some slight evidence of the currency of the word in English and Scottish dialect use before it became prominent in America, but it is doubtful how far this is of importance for its origin.]
1. intr. Of soldiers, troops, etc.: To retreat or retire hastily or precipitately; to flee.
Orig. U.S. military slang, introduced during the Civil War of 1861–5.
1861N.Y. Tribune 10 Aug. 5/5 No sooner did the traitors discover their approach than they ‘skiddaddled’, (a phrase the Union boys up here apply to the good use the seceshers make of their legs in time of danger). 1862in Post Soldiers' Lett. ii. xxxii. 90 As soon as the rebs saw our red breeches (the Zouaves) coming through the woods they skedaddled. 1863J. Russell Diary North & S. II. 421 For their men skedaddled, and the Secession cavalry slipping after them, had a very pretty chase. 1875Buckland Log-Book 246 The enemy skedaddled without coming to the scratch. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. xxvii. 260 So that those honest fellows..might have the less temptation thrown in their way to skedaddle.
2. a. In general use: To go away, leave, or depart hurriedly; to run away, ‘clear out’.
1862Illustr. Lond. News 24 May 540/3, I ‘skeedadled’ from the capital of the dis-United States. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxi. 260 Mama, Major Grantly has—skedaddled. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arb. xxxix, The middies swiftly creep over the seats and skedaddle.
b. Of animals: To run off, stampede.
1879F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 166 There were several hundred elephants about, and they all skedaddled, making for the hills. 1888J. Inglis Tent Life in Tigerland 66 An untried elephant will not unnaturally turn tail and incontinently ‘skedaddle’ as hard as it can lay legs to the ground.
3. trans. To spill (milk, etc.). dial.
1862Ld. Hill in Times 13 Oct. 10/3 You blind buzzard, don't you see you are skedaddling all that milk?
Hence skeˈdaddler.
1864Index 9 June 359/3 If the emigration of skedaddlers from the field of battle continues to increase. 1869Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 507 Consolation to skedaddlers in general.
Add: skeˈdaddling vbl. n.
1863C. H. Smith in Southern Confederacy (Atlanta, Georgia) 13 May 2/1 But ther wer no panik, no skeedadlin. 1979A. Sillitoe Storyteller i. ii. 26 He was even more ashamed of his panicky skedaddling than of having read his poetry. |
