Studded vs Scudded - What's the difference?
studded | scudded |
Having studs.
(scud)
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.
As an adjective studded
is having studs.As a verb scudded is
(scud).studded
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She had studded boots.
- Use of studded tires is regulated in most countries.
scudded
English
Verb
(head)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