Dictionary

scad en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /skad/
• /skæd/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
2. (Canada, US, in-plural, informal) A large number or quantity.
   • You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else. 1966, United States Senate Labor and Public Welfare [committee], Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
   • 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.) 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine:
   • scads of money
   • it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust. 1928 February 18, Pennsylvania Farmer Consolidated with the Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer, volume 97, number 7, page 224:

Forms

Deriveds

shrimp scad · spotfin scad · golden scad · Arabian scad · crozet scad) · goggle-eye scad · yellowstripe scad · African scad · common scad · bigeye scad · hardtail scad · blackfin scad · torpedo scad · round scad · mackerel scad · rough scad · big-eyed scad · finny scad · banded scad · goggle eye scad · cordyla scad · false scad · big eyed scad · razorbelly scad · yellowtail scad

Synonyms

horseload · fuckwad · bucketload · battalion · many · ton · fuckton · sight · shedload · crapflood · mampus · heap · hecatomb · multiplicity · butt-ton · superflux · lot · vaultful · truckload · slew · sum · multitude · metric shitload · tun · boatload · bumload · great deal · shitful · busload · gob · mountain · bucketful · fuckload · shitton · deal · spadeloads · abundance · pile · assload · helluvalot · arseload · lashings · mickle · load · bellyload · ream · brimful · shitload · trainload · muckle · hantle · metric fuckton · crapload · cartload · shitflood · mass · buttload · wagonload

Translations (11)

mi kōheru (fish) · pl ostrolin (fish) · id ikan layang (fish) · dv ރިތް މަސް (fish) · de Bastardmakrele (fish) · de Stöcker (fish) · fi piikkimakrilli (fish) · cs kranas (fish) · mi kōheriheri (fish) · pl ostrobok (fish) · ga gabhar (fish)