scud

See also Scud

English

Etymology

Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to throw, to shoot”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌd

Alternative forms

• skud (dialectal sense only)

Adjective

scud (comparative more scud, superlative most scud)

1. (slang, Scotland) Naked.

Verb

scud (third-person singular simple present scuds, present participle scudding, simple past and past participle scudded)

1. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
2. (intransitive, nautical) To run before a high wind with no sails set.
3. (Northumbrian) To hit.
4. (Northumbrian) To speed.
5. (Northumbrian) To skim.

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
• “scud” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.

Noun

scud (plural scuds)

1. The act of scudding.
2. Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face [...].

3. A gust of wind.
4. (Bristolian) A scab on a wound.
5. (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
6. (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.

   A bottle of Scud

Translations

gust of wind

Finnish: puuska (fi)

Russian: порыв (ru)