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Definition scut

Etymology 1

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurt?re, scurt?re, from curt? (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -?. 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).

Noun

scut (plural scuts)

1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
3. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutan? (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).

Noun

scut (plural scuts)

1. (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.

Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.

Noun

scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)

1. (also attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically (medicine, slang) some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.

Etymology 4

Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish scutla (“to leap”).

Verb

scut (third-person singular simple present scuts, present participle scutting, simple past and past participle scut)

1. (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.

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