different between sud vs scud

English

Etymology

From a variation of sod, itself a shortening of sodden. Related to seethe.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

sud (plural suds)

1. (informal) A bubble of lather or foam (the singular of suds).

Derived terms

• soapsud

Anagrams

• 'uds, DSU, DUs, UDS, USD, us'd

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• Sud

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Compare Romanian sud.

Noun

sud

1. south

See also

• datã/Datã
• vestu/Vestu, ascãpitatã
• nordu/Nordu, njadzã-noapti
• not/Not

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sut/

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

Synonyms

• migdia, migjorn

Antonyms

• nord

See also

(compass points) punt cardinal;

Further reading

• “sud” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “sud” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “sud” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “sud” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Corsican

Alternative forms

• sudu

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud. Cognates include Italian sud and Spanish sur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/
• Hyphenation: sud

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

References

• “sud, sudu” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Czech

Noun

sud m

1. barrel
2. keg party

Further reading

• sud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

From Middle French sud, from Old French su, sud (“south”), from Old English s?þ (“south”), from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?. More at south.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syd/

Noun

sud m (plural sud)

1. south

Synonyms

• midi

Antonyms

• nord

Further reading

• “sud” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• dus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. south

   Synonyms: meridione, mezzogiorno

   Antonym: nord

Derived terms

• sud-
• sudest, sud-est
• sudista
• sud-sud-est
• sud-sud-ovest
• sudovest, sud-ovest

See also

• est
• ovest
• punto cardinale

Norman

Alternative forms

• su (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French sud, su (“south”), from Old English s?þ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Pronunciation

Noun

sud m (invariable)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) south

Occitan

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. south

   Antonym: nòrd

Further reading

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 935.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud, from Old English suþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþr?.

Noun

sud n (uncountable)

1. south

Declension

Synonyms

• miaz?zi (archaic, poetic)

Antonyms

• nord

Coordinate terms

• (compass points) punct cardinal;

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. court
2. courthouse
3. tribunal
4. judgment

Declension

Related terms

• sudac

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *s?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sû?d/

Noun

s?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) vessel
2. (regional) dish

Declension

References

• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “sud” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French sud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sud/, [?suð?]

Noun

sud m (uncountable)

1. (Latin America) south

   Synonym: (more common) sur

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ??? (sud).

Noun

sud (plural sudlar)

1. court

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse súð.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/, /s????d/, /sœ???r/

  Rhymes: -???ð

  (southern ð-dropping) Rhymes: -???, -???ð

  (ð-r merger) Rhymes: -???r, -???ð

Noun

sud f

1. (nautical, of a boat) A ship's side; boat edge, top part, edge around a boat, responding to railing on larger craft.

Derived terms

• båtsud
• sudband
• syd

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