different between scud vs smud

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

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