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Scug vs Scud - What's the difference?

scug | scud |

As a noun scug

is (scottish) shade, shadow.

As a verb scug

is (scottish|transitive) to shelter; to protect.

As a proper noun scud is

a soviet-developed ballistic missile.

scug

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scottish) shade, shadow.
  • (Scottish) a shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
  • (dated, slang) A lower-school or inferior boy.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1881 , author=C. E. Pascoe , title=Everyday Life in our Public Schools , chapter= , url= , isbn= , page=312 , passage= Scug , Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1969 , author=Ralph G. Martin , title=Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895 , publisher=Prentice-Hall , url= , isbn= , page=54 , passage=A scug' was an untidy, ill-mannered , and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a ' scug was considered degenerate.}}

    Verb

  • (Scottish) To shelter; to protect.
  • (Scottish) To hide; to take shelter.

    • scud

    English

    Alternative forms

    * skud (dialectal sense only)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang, Scotland) Naked.

    • Verb

    (scudd)
  • To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
  • * I. Taylor
    • the first Nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primæval oceans
  • * Beaconsfield
    • The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter II:
    • During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in
  • (ambitransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
  • (Northumbria) To hit.
  • (Northumbria) To speed.
  • (Northumbria) To skim.

    • References

    * * . Geordie English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of scudding.
  • Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • 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 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 bottle of Scud