Scud

English

Adjective

Scud (comparative more Scud, superlative most Scud)

1. (slang, Scotland) Naked.

Verb

Scud (third-person singular simple present Scuds, present participle scudding, simple past and past participle scudded)

1. (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
2. (intransitive, nautical) To run before a high wind with no sails set.
3. (Northumbrian) To hit.
4. (Northumbrian) To speed.
5. (Northumbrian) To skim.

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
• “scud” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001.

Noun

Scud (plural Scuds)

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. (Bristolian) A scab on a wound.
5. (slang, Scotland) Pornography.
6. (slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.

   A bottle of Scud

7. A Soviet-developed ballistic missile.

Thesaurus

Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, blast, blow, bolt, brash, breakers, burst, burst of rain, burst of speed, canter, cap cloud, career, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudburst, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, collar, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, dart, dash, dead run, deluge, dogtrot, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, flank speed, flat-out speed, flaw, fleecy cloud, fling, float, flood, flurry, fly, foam, foot, forced draft, fractocumulus, froth, full gallop, gallop, ghost, glide, gushing rain, gust, hand gallop, haste, hasten, head, headlong rush, heavy rain, heavy right foot, hie, high fog, high lope, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, jog trot, lather, lope, mackerel sky, make haste, mammatocumulus, maximum speed, meringue, mousse, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, offscum, open throttle, plash, plow the deep, plunge, post, pour, puff, race, rain cloud, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, ride, ride the sea, run, rush, sail, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scum, scurry, scuttle, sea foam, shoot, skedaddle, skim, slip, snail cloud, soaker, soaking rain, soapsuds, souffle, spate, speed, spindrift, spoondrift, spout, spray, sprint, spume, spurt, squall cloud, step on it, stinging, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, suds, surf, tear, thundercloud, thunderhead, torrent of rain, trot, walk the waters, water carrier, waterspout, white water, wide-open speed, wind gust, woolpack

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌd

Alternative forms

• skud (dialectal sense only)

Translations

Noun

gust of wind

Finnish: puuska (fi)

Russian: порыв (ru)