different between scad vs swad

English

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skad/, /skæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

scad (plural scads or scad)

1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
2. (in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

Translations

References

Anagrams

• ACDs, ADCs, ADS-C, ADSC, DACs, SACD, SADC, cads

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• scadu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *excade?, from Latin ex- + cad?. Compare Daco-Romanian sc?dea, scad.

Verb

scad (third-person singular present indicative scadi/scade, past participle scãdzutã)

1. I decrease, diminish, reduce.
2. I decline.
3. I subtract.

Related terms

• scãdeari/scãdeare
• scãderi
• scãdzut
• scãdzui
• cad

See also

• sclãghescu

Romanian

Verb

scad

1. first-person singular present indicative of sc?dea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of sc?dea
3. third-person plural present indicative of sc?dea

Scots

Verb

scad

1. scald

English

Alternative forms

• swod

Etymology

Related to swaddle?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

swad (plural swads)

1. A bunch, clump, mass
2. (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
3. (obsolete) A boor, lout.
   • 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2

     Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.

   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.

   • 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes

     Country swains, and silly swads.

4. (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
5. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
   • 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia

     Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.

References

Synonyms

• (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass

References

• WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads

Middle English

Noun

swad

1. Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)