Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
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| more scud | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most scud | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| skud | alternative | lexicographic |
First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
Tes nothen but a scud o' snow, If you do talk about gwain, I'll lock 'ee in, same as we did pa'son.1894, Walter Raymond, "Love and Quiet Life": Somerset Idylls, page 124:
... he will have a wet journey, seeing it is apout to pe a scud."1818, Walter Scott, Tales of My Landlord: Second series, page 350:
She'll cure this scud o' sentimental win' Wi' something o' a mair substantial kin';1868, James Salmon (Poetical Writer.), Gowodean: a Pastoral, page 12:
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 […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
Places near the sea have frequent scuds, that keep the atmosphere moist, yet do not reach far up into the country; making thus the maritime situations appear wet, when the rain is not considerable.1858, Gilbert White, The Natural History of Selborne ... A New Edition with Notes by Edward Blyth. To which is Added a Description of the Village and Neighbourhood ... by ... Robert Mudie, page 246:
... banks o' scud drave ragged past, And blashed upon his face, For blast on blast, frae the southwast, Did ither raging chace,[…]1876, John Mactaggart, The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 498:
... a scud of rain splashed on the window, drowning a sentence of the First Lesson.1892, Arthur Quiller-Couch, I Saw Three Ships: And Other Winter Tales, IndyPublish.com, page 12:
Small, ragged, low cloud fragments that are unattached to a larger cloud base and often seen with and behind cold fronts and thunderstorm gust fronts. Such clouds generally are associated with cool moist air, such as thunderstorm outflow.2004, US National Weather Service Glossary
a bottle of scud
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| scuds | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| skud | alternative | lexicographic |
scud missile · scud run · scud cloud
pannus (cloud) · fractus (cloud)
nn marflo (Gammarus) · uk плавний рух (act of scudding) · uk порив (gust of wind) · cs poryv (gust of wind) · fi kiito (act of scudding) · fi vihma (clouds or rain driven by the wind) · fi tuulenpuuska (gust of wind) · mi pūroro (clouds or rain driven by the wind) · fi sumupilvi (loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments) · ru мормы́ш (Gammarus) · uk шквал (gust of wind) · bg плавно движение (act of scudding) · fi kiitäminen (act of scudding) · fi puuska (gust of wind) · sv märla (Gammarus) · ru поры́в (gust of wind) · nn tangloppe (Gammarus) · ru шквал (gust of wind) · bg порив на вятъра (gust of wind) · ru бокоплав (Gammarus)
First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
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, […]1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
When scudding on from snare to snare I plied My anxious visitation, hurrying on, Still hurrying hurrying onward ...1799, William Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:
I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott:
clouds scudding across the sky
The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]1844, Benjamin Disraeli, chapter XVI, in Coningsby, or the New Generation:
If the Main Topsail should by any accident be split, it will be still necessary to have a lofty Sail set in such a Sea, and the close reefed Topsail singly will be the best to scud under.1835, Darcy Lever, The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor:
all night they were obliged to scud under bare poles.1849, Washington Irving, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus; Together with the Voyages of His Companions:
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| scudding | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scuds | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| scudded | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| scudded | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| skud | alternative | lexicographic |
uk гнатися (to race along swiftly) · ko 바람에 휩쓸려 달리다 (to run before high wind) · uk нестися (to race along swiftly) · cs letět (to race along swiftly) · cs uhánět (to race along swiftly) · bg нося се (to race along swiftly) · ko 바람을 타고 빠르게 달리다 (to run before high wind) · fi kiitää (to race along swiftly) · ko 질주하다 (to race along swiftly) · cs hnát se (to race along swiftly) · uk мчати (to race along swiftly)