scut
/skʌt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3."
- "I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put."
- "Put on your dress, ye shameless witch, standin' there in your pelt I'll take a strap to, for havin' the conceit out of you, for by your idling had lost me the sup of gin to keep the breath of life in me. Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it."
- "So … so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? Jesse, you are a lad; when will you learn?"
- "One of the sisters backed up to the fire and hiked up the tail of her dress and bent over and thrust out her scut to it and stared at Inman with a look of glazed pleasure in her blue eyes."
- "He sped off towards Conway's corner. God speed scut."
Etymology
From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely. As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /skʌt/
- British English: /skʌt/