different between scur vs scut

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

Noun

scur (plural scurs)

1. (veterinary) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.

Etymology 2

Compare scour (“to run”).

Verb

scur (third-person singular simple present scurs, present participle scurring, simple past and past participle scurred)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

• CRUs, RUCs, crus, curs, rucs, sucr-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• scuru

Etymology

Probably ultimately from Latin obsc?rus, perhaps through the intermediate of Italian scuro.

Adjective

scur

1. dark brown (usually of hair)
2. (figuratively) sombre

Lombard

Etymology

From scuro.

Adjective

scur

1. dark

Old English

Alternative forms

• s??or

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, whence also Old High German sc?r, Old Norse skúr, from Proto-Indo-European *kew-(e)ro-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?r/

Noun

s??r m or f

1. shower

Descendants

• Middle English: shour, schour, schur, showre, schowre, shower
  • English: shower
  • Scots: schour, shower

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, whence also Old Saxon sk?r, Old English sc?r, Old Norse skúr.

Noun

sc?r m

1. shower

Declension

Descendants

• Middle High German: sch?re, sch?r, schoure, schour
  • German: Schauer

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *sk?r? (“shelter”)

Noun

sc?r m

1. shelter

Descendants

• German: Scheuer, Pennsylvania German: Scheier

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sk?t/, /sk?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurt?re, scurt?re, from curt? (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -?. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.

As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).

Noun

scut (plural scuts)

1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

   • Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

3. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutan? (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

Noun

scut (plural scuts)

1. (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:git

Translations

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.

Noun

scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)

1. (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drudgery
2. (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.

Derived terms

• scut monkey
• scut work, scutwork

Translations

Etymology 4

Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish scutla (“to leap”).

Verb

scut (third-person singular simple present scuts, present participle scutting, simple past and past participle scut)

1. (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.

See also

• whid

References

Anagrams

• Cust., TUSC, U. S. C. T., U.S.C.T., UCTs, USCT, USTC, cust, cuts

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin sc?tum (“shield”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skei- (“to cut, split”), an extension of *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

scut n (plural scuturi)

1. shield

Related terms

• scuti