different between shad vs shud

English

Etymology

Old English sceadd, either from Celtic (see Irish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian (see dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

shad (plural shad or shads)

1. Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
   • 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1

     Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.

2. (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ADHs, Dash, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, dash

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English shoed, past participle of shon.

Adjective

shad

1. shod

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology 1

From the Late Middle English schudde.

Noun

shud (plural shuds)

1. (obsolete outside West Country, Derbyshire, East Anglia, Herefordshire, Yorkshire) A shed.

References

“shud” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989]

Etymology 2

See should.

Verb

shud

1. nonstandard or archaic spelling of should

Anagrams

• HUDs, dush, huds