hurry

Meanings

Noun

• Rushed action.
• Urgency.
• an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
• A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Verb

• To do things quickly.
• Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.
• To cause to be done quickly.
• To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
• To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
• To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.

Origin

• From Middle English horien ("to rush, impel"), probably a variation of hurren, from Proto-Germanic *hurzaną ("to rush") (compare Middle High German hurren ("to hasten"), Norwegian hurre ("to whirl around")), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- ("to run") (compare Latin currō ("I run"), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar ("league; course")). Related to hurr, horse, rush.
• Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.