Scud vs Cud - What's the difference?
scud | cud |
To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
* I. Taylor
* Beaconsfield
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
(ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
(Northumbria) To hit.
(Northumbria) To speed.
(Northumbria) To skim.
The act of scudding.
Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
A gust of wind.
(Bristol) A scab on a wound.
A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
(slang, Scotland) Pornography.
(slang, Scotland) Irn-Bru.
The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
could (informal), past of can.
As a proper noun scud
is a soviet-developed ballistic missile.As a noun cud is
axe.scud
English
Alternative forms
* skud (dialectal sense only)Verb
(scudd)- the first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primæval oceans
- The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in
References
* * . Geordie EnglishNoun
(en noun)- But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face
- A bottle of Scud
