Scud

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒd

Origin

Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta ("to throw, to shoot").

Alternative forms

• skud dialectal sense only

Full definition of scud

Adjective

1. (slang, Scotland) Naked.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
• I. Taylorthe first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primæval oceans
• BeaconsfieldThe wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
• 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. (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
3. (Northumbria) To hit.
4. (Northumbria) To speed.
5. (Northumbria) To skim.

Noun

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. (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
5. A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
6. Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
7. (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
8. (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.A bottle of Scud