scut
Meanings
Plural: scuts
Noun
- a short erect tail
- A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
- A contemptible person.
- Distasteful work; drudgery
- Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
Verb
- To scamper off.
Origin / 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).
Synonyms
arsehole, ass, assface, asshat, asshole, asswipe, bastard, bitch, blackguard, blaggard, buttlicker, buttmunch, carrion, chores, cockhead, cocklicker, cocksucker, cowson, crud, cunt, dick, dickhead, dickwad, dickweed, dipshit, douche, douchebag, douchecanoe, douchewagon, drudgery, drudgework, earthworm, fatigue, fribble, fucker, fuckface, fuckhead, fuckstain, fucktard, git, heel, hilding, insect, jackass, jerk, loser, louse, mahfugga, mongrel, motherfucker, paskudnyak, pigfucker, pigwidgeon, prick, queef, raasclaat, ratfink, razzmatazz, schmuck, scrub, scut, scutwork, sewer rat, sheep-biter, shit, shitbird, shitehawk, shitface, shithead, skate, slag, son of a bitch, son of a gun, son of a whore, stinker, swine, swink, toil, turdball, twattock, wankpuffin, whoreson, worm, yutz
Scrabble Score: 6
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