Refine this word faster
Scut
Definitions
- 1 A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt. obsolete
- 2 A contemptible person. Ireland, colloquial
""I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told.""
- 3 Distasteful work; drudgery attributive, countable, uncountable
"Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon."
- 4 a short erect tail wordnet
- 5 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."
Show 2 more definitions
- 6 Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes. countable, slang, uncountable
"There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do."
- 7 The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva. broadly
"I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put."
- 1 To scamper off. East-Anglia, Yorkshire, intransitive
"―A fat lot you know about it, Thunder! Wells said. I know why they scut."
Etymology
From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. 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).
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 *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).
Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.
Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish scutla (“to leap”).
See also for "scut"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: scut