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scad

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Etymology

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Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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scad (plural scads or scad)

  1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
  2. (chiefly in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
    scads of money
    • 1966, United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare, Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
      You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.
    • 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine‎[1]:
      Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […] , mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)

Derived terms

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scad”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ “Scads: A whole lot of fishy.”, The Word Detective, April 24th, 2009

Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *excadeō, from Latin ex- + cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian scădea, scad.

Verb

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scad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative scadi or scade, past participle scãdzutã)

  1. to decrease, diminish, reduce
  2. to decline
  3. to subtract
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Romanian

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Verb

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scad

  1. inflection of scădea:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Scots

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Verb

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scad

  1. scald
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