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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
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