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scut
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)
- (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
- 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.
- (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)
- (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)
- (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drudgery
- (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)
- (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)
- shield
Related terms
- scuti
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scup
English
Wikispecies
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.
Noun
scup (plural scup or scups)
- A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
- 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
- A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
- 2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276,
- Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.
- 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
Translations
Etymology 2
From Dutch schop.
Noun
scup (plural scups)
- (US, dialect) A swing.
References
- scup in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- CPSU, CPUs, CUPS, Cups, UPCs, UPSC, cups, cusp
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