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In some senses, scut is marked as obsolete, slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
real
VERB + SCUT
know, scrimped, tickled
SCUT + NOUN
daughter, play'd
PREP.
with
noun
A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
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.
noun
A contemptible person.
"I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut of a fellow, and worse doin's behind that, if the truth is told."
She didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.
noun
Distasteful work; drudgery
Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon.
And the scut of weeding or washing clothes or waiting in the dentist's waiting room or the soccer field parking lot is actually far less brutalizing than the scut of grading freshman essays [...]
Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.
Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
WiktionaryI rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.
WiktionaryPut 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
Wiktionary"I'll have no more of it. I'll have no more Dinny Ryans handlin' flesh and blood of my gettin'. Ye'd see me dyin' for a sup of drink to give me peace, and you philanderin' and danderin' with yon scut
WiktionaryShe didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.
WiktionaryI dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.
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In some senses, scut is marked as obsolete, slang, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.