different between scud vs cud

English

Alternative forms

• skud (dialectal sense only)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sk?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

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).
   • 1799, William Wordsworth,The Two-Part Prelude, Book I:

     When scudding on from snare to snare I plied

     My anxious visitation, hurrying on,

     Still hurrying hurrying onward ...

   • 1807 Walter Scott, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. 4, "Cadyow Castle":

     From the thick copse the roebucks bound,

     The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]

   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby, or the New Generation, Chapter XVI:

     The 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. (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
3. (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
4. (Northumbria) To speed.
5. (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.

Translations

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “scud”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Noun

scud (countable and uncountable, 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. (uncountable) A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
   • 2004, US National Weather Service Glossary:

     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.

4. A gust of wind.
5. (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
6. A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
7. Any swimming amphipod.
8. A swift runner.
9. A form of garden hoe.
10. A slap; a sharp stroke.
11. (slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.
12. (slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.

    a bottle of scud

Derived terms

• scud run

Synonyms

• (cloud): pannus or fractus

Translations

Anagrams

• CDUs, UCSD, cuds

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English code, cudde, coude, quede, quide, from Old English cudu, cwidu, from Proto-Germanic *kweduz (“resin”). Cognate with German Kitt and Sanskrit ??? (jatu, “lac, gum”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?d, IPA^(key): /k?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

cud (countable and uncountable, plural cuds)

1. The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.

Translations

Verb

cud (third-person singular simple present cuds, present participle cudding, simple past and past participle cudded)

1. (transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Singing," [1]

     Here were two ladies nearly fifty years old, throwing back their heads to sing love songs, nursery songs, hymns, God Save the Queen, Rule Britannia—songs that spilled over the drawing-room as easily as Small's cow songs spilled over the yard, only Small's songs were new, fresh grass snatched as the cow snatched pasture grass. The ladies’ songs were rechews—cudded fodder.

   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, HarperCollins, 2009, Part One, Chapter Two,

     […] although the wagon wheels perpetually flung up rivers of red sand, and she travelled in a column of whirling ruddy dust, the sweet perfumes of newly cudded grass mingled with it, mile after mile, as if the four-divided stomachs of the great oxen were filled with nothing but concentrated memories of hours of grazing along the water heavy vleis.

Etymology 2

Shorted form of could.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k?d/

• Rhymes: -?d

Verb

cud

1. (nonstandard, informal) Alternative form of could

Anagrams

• CDU, DCU, UCD, UDC, ucd

Polish

Etymology

First attested from 16th c. From Old Polish czud, czudo < Proto-Slavic *?udo < Proto-Indo-European *(s)k?u?d-es, *(s)k?u?d-os. Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (kûdos, “glory”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sut/

Noun

cud m inan

1. miracle

Declension

Derived terms

• cudny, cudowny, cudotwórca

Related terms

• cudo, czu?

Further reading

• cud in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cud in Polish dictionaries at PWN