Scud vs Scoot - What's the difference?
scud | scoot |
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.
(split) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.
To ride on a .
(of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.
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As a proper noun scud
is a soviet-developed ballistic missile.As a noun scoot is
(slang) a dollar.As a verb scoot is
(split) to walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily.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
scoot
English
Verb
(en verb)- They scooted over to the window.
- The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
