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).
   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter II:

     During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in […] Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains, […]

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.

Translations

to race along swiftly

• Finnish: kiitää (fi)

to run before high wind

References

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

act of scudding

• Finnish: kiitäminen (fi), kiito (fi)

clouds or rain driven by the wind

• Finnish: vihma (fi) (rain)

gust of wind

• Czech: (literary and poetic) poryv (cs) m
• Finnish: puuska (fi), tuulenpuuska (fi)

• Russian: порыв (ru) (poryv) (ветра), шквал (ru) (škval)