hurrisome
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edithurrisome (comparative more hurrisome, superlative most hurrisome)
- Characterised or marked by hurrying; quick; hasty
- 2009, James G. Anderson, Mark Sebanc, The Stoneholding:
- Don't be hurrisome or you'll pay for it with a broken head.
- 2013, Eric Gene Crider, Wisp:
- Although the brisket was excellent, Elbert seemed a tad hurrisome to conclude the meal so she would stop talking.
- 2015, Ellery Queen, The Last Woman in His Life:
- The murderer of Marcia's husband stripped off rubber gloves, thrust gloves and envelope deeply away, then fled in a stroll northward toward an exit different from the place of entry ... to a hurrisome eye just another foolhardy New Yorker defying the statistics of Central Park's nighttime crime.
- 2015, Ellery Queen, Guess Who's Coming to Kill You?:
- Levashev shrugged; the shrug said that Americans were a hurrisome people.