skedaddle – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to skedaddle
Participle: skedaddled
Gerund: skedaddling

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	skedaddle
we	Let's skedaddle
you	skedaddle

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to go away quickly

rush

move or run away quickly

flee, move quickly, rush

to move at full speed in retreat; to escape

absquatulate, amscray, beat a retreat, beat feet, beat it, blow this popsicle stand, bolt, book it, do a bunk, flee, fly the coop, get lost, get out, gnash, head for the hills, hightail, hightail it, hit the road, jump, kick rocks, leg it, make a break for it, make a run for it, make tracks, namous, peg it, rabbit, run a mile, run away, run for the hills, run off, scamper, scarper, scat, scram, shemozzle, take a powder, take flight, take off, take to one's heels, take to the hills, tear off, turn tail, vamoose

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

First use appears c. 1861, in the New York Tribune. The word appeared and gained prominence in Civil War military contexts around 1861, and rapidly passing into more general use. Possibly an alteration of British dialect scaddle (“to run off in a fright”), from the adjective scaddle (“wild, timid, skittish”), from Middle English scathel, skadylle (“harmful, fierce, wild”), perhaps of North Germanic/Scandinavian origin, from Old Norse *sköþull; or from Old English *scaþol, *sceaþol (see scathel); akin to Old Norse skaði (“harm”). Possibly related to the Ancient Greek σκέδασις (skédasis, “scattering”), σκεδασμός (skedasmós, “dispersion”). Possibly related to scud or scat.

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