There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
SCUT
scut
(noun) a short erect tail
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
scut (plural scuts)
(obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also, figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
(by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
Etymology 2
Noun
scut (plural scuts)
(chiefly, Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
Synonym: Thesaurus:git
Etymology 3
Noun
scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)
(also, attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery; specifically (medicine, slang) some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
Synonym: Thesaurus:drudgery
Etymology 4
Verb
scut (third-person singular simple present scuts, present participle scutting, simple past and past participle scut)
(intransitive, originally, Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.
Anagrams
• Cust., TUSC, U. S. C. T., U.S.C.T., UCTs, USCT, USTC, cust, cuts
Source: Wiktionary
Scut, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. skott a fox's tail. sq. root 159.] [Obs.]
Definition: The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail is short, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself. "He ran like a scut." Skelton. How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, wheras that part in others attains no higher than a scut. Sir T. Browne. My doe with the black scut. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
23 January 2025
LEFT
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
Coffee Trivia
