In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
scut
(noun) a short erect tail
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
scut (plural scuts)
(chiefly, Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
Synonym: Thesaurus:git
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
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.
• 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
28 March 2024
(adjective) crowded or massed together; “give me...your huddled masses”; “the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind”
In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.