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4 lettersPronunciation /skʌt/Part of speech nounSorted cstuStarts with SEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a short erect tail

Word origin

From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely.

Used in a sentence

  • Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
  • I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.
  • So … so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? Jesse, you are a lad; when will you learn?

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