Scud vs Wisp - What's the difference?
scud | wisp |
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.
A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
* Dryden
A whisk, or small broom.
A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between scud and wisp
is that scud is to race along swiftly (especially used of clouds) while wisp is to brush or dress, as with a wisp.As nouns the difference between scud and wisp
is that scud is the act of scudding while wisp is a small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.As an adjective scud
is naked.As a proper noun Scud
is a Soviet-developed ballistic missile.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
wisp
English
Noun
(en noun)- A wisp of smoke rose from the candle for a few moments after he blew it out.
- A wisp of hair escaped her barrette and whipped wildly in the wind.
- in a small basket, on a wisp of hay
- the wisp that flickers where no foot can tread
