scud
See also: Scud
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- skud (dialectal sense only)
Etymology edit
From Middle English scud (“scab”), perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to throw, to shoot”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
scud (comparative more scud, superlative most scud)
Verb edit
scud (third-person singular simple present scuds, present participle scudding, simple past and past participle scudded)
- (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
- 1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
- When scudding on from snare to snare I plied
My anxious visitation, hurrying on,
Still hurrying hurrying onward ...
- 1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:
- From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]
- 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in Coningsby, or the New Generation:
- The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in […] Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […]
- (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
- (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
- (Northumbria) To speed.
- (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to race along swiftly
to run before high wind
References edit
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scud”, in Online Etymology Dictionary..
Noun edit
scud (countable and uncountable, plural scuds)
- The act of scudding.
- Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face […]
- (uncountable) A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
- 2004, US National Weather Service Glossary:
- Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.
- 2004, US National Weather Service Glossary:
- A gust of wind.
- (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
- A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
- Any swimming amphipod.
- A swift runner.
- A form of garden hoe.
- A slap; a sharp stroke.
- (slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.
- (slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.
- a bottle of scud
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
act of scudding
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gust of wind
References edit
- “scud”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
scud m (plural scuzi)
- scudo (coin)