scut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skʌt/
ipa: /skət/
ipa: /skʊt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: scuts
Etymology: 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 *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).
Senses: examples: text: "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."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 195:
text: 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.
ref: 1947, Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken: A Drama in Three Acts (French’s Acting Edition; no. 308), London: French, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, 1954, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 49:
text: I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.
ref: 1985, “Delerium Tremens” (track 2), in Ordinary Man, performed by Christy Moore:
text: CHRIS. Danny Bradley is a scut, Rose. / ROSE. I never said it was Danny Bradley! / CHRIS. He's a married man with three young children.
ref: 1993, Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, →ISBN, act I, page 14:
text: Ruth had snapped open her purse and pulled out a small gun. I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the car; she squawked and her shot went wide. [...] "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative. You made me miss."
ref: 1997, John Kessel, “The Pure Product”, in The Pure Product: Stories (Tom Doherty Associates Book), New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN; republished in Harry Turtledove, with Martin H[arry] Greenberg, editors, The Best Time Travel Stories of the 20th Century, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Fat-headed scut. That's what he is, scut. Thinks he runs the whole river.
ref: 2005, Dean Whitlock, chapter 12, in Sky Carver, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 108:
synonyms: word: arsehole
word: ass
word: assface
word: asshat
word: asshole
word: asswipe
word: bastard
word: bitch
word: blackguard
word: blaggard
word: buttlicker
word: buttmunch
word: carrion
word: cockhead
word: cocklicker
word: cocksucker
word: cowson
word: crud
word: cunt
word: dick
word: dickhead
word: dickwad
word: dickweed
word: dipshit
word: douche
word: douchebag
word: douchecanoe
word: douchewagon
word: earthworm
word: fribble
word: fucker
word: fuckface
word: fuckhead
word: fuckstain
word: fucktard
word: git
word: heel
word: hilding
word: insect
word: jackass
word: jerk
word: loser
word: louse
word: mahfugga
word: mongrel
word: motherfucker
word: paskudnyak
word: pigwidgeon
word: pigfucker
word: prick
word: queef
word: raasclaat
word: ratfink
word: schmuck
word: scrub
word: scut
word: sewer rat
word: sheep-biter
word: shit
word: shitbird
word: shitehawk
word: shitface
word: shithead
word: skate
word: slag
word: son of a bitch
word: son of a gun
word: son of a whore
word: stinker
word: swine
word: turdball
word: twattock
word: wankpuffin
word: whoreson
word: worm
word: yutz
glosses: A contemptible person.