scad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skad/
ipa: /skæd/
rhymes: -æd
Forms: form: scads
form: scad
Etymology: Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
examples: text: scads of money
text: it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust.
ref: 1928 February 18, Pennsylvania Farmer Consolidated with the Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer, volume 97, number 7, page 224:
text: You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.
ref: 1966, United States Senate Labor and Public Welfare [committee], Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
text: Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […], mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)
ref: 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large number or quantity.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Trachurus delagoa
word: African scad
taxonomic: Trachurus indicus
word: Arabian scad
taxonomic: Alepes kleinii
word: banded scad
word: big-eyed scad
word: big eyed scad
taxonomic: Selar crumenophthalmus
word: bigeye scad
taxonomic: Alepes melanoptera
word: blackfin scad
taxonomic: Trachurus trachurus
word: common scad
taxonomic: Megalaspis cordyla
word: cordyla scad
taxonomic: Trachurus longimanus
word: crozet scad)
taxonomic: Caranx rhonchus
word: false scad
taxonomic: Megalaspis cordyla
word: finny scad
word: goggle-eye scad
taxonomic: Alepes kleinii
word: goggle eye scad
taxonomic: Alepes kleinii
word: golden scad
taxonomic: Megalaspis cordyla
word: hardtail scad
taxonomic: Decapterus macarellus
word: mackerel scad
taxonomic: Alepes kleinii
word: razorbelly scad
taxonomic: Trachurus lathami
word: rough scad
taxonomic: Decapterus punctatus
word: round scad
taxonomic: Alepes djedaba
word: shrimp scad
taxonomic: Caranx rhonchus
word: spotfin scad
taxonomic: Megalaspis cordyla
word: torpedo scad
taxonomic: Selaroides leptolepis
word: yellowstripe scad
taxonomic: Atule mate
word: yellowtail scad