scud
/skʌd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To speed.
Example Sentences
- "clouds scudding across the sky"
- "When scudding on from snare to snare I plied My anxious visitation, hurrying on, Still hurrying hurrying onward ..."
- "From the thick copse the roebucks bound, The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]"
- "The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven […]"
- "I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale."
- "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, […]"
Etymology
First attested in 1530, of unknown origin but perhaps from Middle English scut (“rabbit, rabbit's tail”) or from Middle Dutch schudden (“to shake”), ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
Origin
- Source language: Middle English
- First known use: First attested in 1530
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more scud (comparative)
most scud (superlative)
skud (alternative)
scuds (present, singular)
scudding (participle, present)
scudded (participle, past)
scudded (past)
scuds (plural)