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English
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Etymology
[edit]Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /skad/, /skæd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æd
Noun
[edit]scad (plural scads or scad)
- Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
- (chiefly in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
- scads of money
- 1966, United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare, Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
- You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.
- 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine[1]:
- Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […] , mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)
Derived terms
[edit]- African scad (Trachurus delagoa)
- Arabian scad (Trachurus indicus)
- banded scad (Alepes kleinii)
- big-eyed scad, big eyed scad, bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus)
- blackfin scad (Alepes melanoptera)
- common scad (Trachurus trachurus)
- cordyla scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
- crozet scad (Trachurus longimanus))
- false scad (Caranx rhonchus)
- finny scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
- goggle-eye scad, goggle eye scad (Alepes kleinii)
- golden scad (Alepes kleinii)
- hardtail scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
- mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus)
- razorbelly scad (Alepes kleinii)
- rough scad (Trachurus lathami)
- round scad (Decapterus punctatus)
- shrimp scad (Alepes djedaba)
- spotfin scad (Caranx rhonchus)
- torpedo scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
- yellowstripe scad (Selaroides leptolepis)
- yellowtail scad (Atule mate)
Translations
[edit]fish
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References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scad”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- ^ “Scads: A whole lot of fishy.”, The Word Detective, April 24th, 2009
Anagrams
[edit]Aromanian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Vulgar Latin *excadeō, from Latin ex- + cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian scădea, scad.
Verb
[edit]scad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative scadi or scade, past participle scãdzutã)
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[edit]See also
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Verb
[edit]scad
- inflection of scădea:
Scots
[edit]Verb
[edit]scad
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