scud

• skud (dialectal sense only)

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

• Rhymes: -ʌd

scud (comparative more scud, superlative most scud)

1. (slang, Scotland) Naked.

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.

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• “scud” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019..

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

    a bottle of scud

• (cloud): pannus

• CDUs, UCSD, cuds