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Sculk vs Sculd - What's the difference?

sculk | sculd |

As verbs the difference between sculk and sculd

is that sculk is while sculd is to accuse (someone) of wrong-doing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.

As a noun sculd is

a parting.

sculk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and sculk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=No, Sir, you had good Clothes when you came first, but they dwindled daily, till they dwindled to this old Campaign--with tan'd coloured Lining--once red--but now all Colours of the Rain-bow, a Cloke to sculk in a Nights, and a pair of piss-burn'd shammy Breeches. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Jonathan Swift, title=Poems (Volume II.), chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Let other nice lords sculk at home from the wars, Prank'd up and adorn'd with garters and stars, Which but twinkle like those in a cold frosty night; While to yours you are adding such lustre and light, That if you proceed, I'm sure very soon 'Twill be brighter and larger than the sun or the moon: A blazing star, I foretell, 'twill prove to the Gaul, That portends of his empire the ruin and fall. }}

    Anagrams

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    sculd

    English

    Etymology 1

    From back-formation of (l). Related to (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l), (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To accuse (someone) of wrong-doing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.
  • Etymology 2

    Related to (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A parting.
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