different between stut vs scut

English

Etymology 1

Cognate with German stützen (“to support”), Dutch stutten (“to support”), Danish støtte (“to support”), Norwegian støtte (“to support”), Swedish støtta (“to support”), Icelandic styðja (“to support”).

Alternative forms

• steet, stutt stuit, stoot, stout

Verb

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, transitive) To support, prop up.

Noun

stut (plural stuts)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A support.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• An historical dictionary

Etymology 2

From Middle English stutten (“to stammer, stop short”), from Old English *stuttan (“to stop short, stutter”), from Proto-Germanic *stutjan? (“to stammer, stop short”). Cognate with German stutzen (“to hesitate, stumble, stop short”).

Verb

stut (third-person singular simple present stuts, present participle stutting, simple past and past participle stutted)

1. (obsolete) To stutter.

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

Anagrams

• Utts, tuts

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Swedish stut, and English stot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stut m (definite singular stuten, indefinite plural stuter, definite plural stutene)

1. a bull

   Synonyms: okse, tyr

   Coordinate term: ku

References

• “stut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• sutt, tust

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Swedish stut, and English stot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

stut m (definite singular stuten, indefinite plural stutar, definite plural stutane)

1. a bull

   Synonyms: okse, tyr

   Coordinate term: ku

References

• “stut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• sutt, tust

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse stútr. Cognate with Danish stud, Norwegian stut, and English stot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stut c

1. bull

Declension

Synonyms

• oxe

References

• stut in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• stut in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• tuts

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