different between scup vs scud

English

Wikispecies

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.

Noun

scup (plural scup or scups)

1. A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.
   • 1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,

     A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.

   • 2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276,

     Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Dutch schop.

Noun

scup (plural scups)

1. (US, dialect) A swing.

References

• scup in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• CPSU, CPUs, CUPS, Cups, UPCs, UPSC, cups, cusp

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