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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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scuta
English
Noun
scuta (plural scutae)
- A scutum.
Noun
scuta
- plural of scutum
Anagrams
- actus
Latin
Noun
sc?ta
- nominative plural of sc?tum
- accusative plural of sc?tum
- vocative plural of sc?tum
References
- scuta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- scuta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- scuta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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