Scutter vs Scatter - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between scutter and scatter

is that scutter is to void thin excrement while scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

is thin excrement.

(en noun)

Thin excrement.

* 1922 , (James Joyce), (Telemachus episode):

Scutter! he cried thickly.

(en verb)

To void thin excrement.

* 1565 , Alois Brandl (ed.), King Daryus :

Nay then I wil geue you no bread and butter.
Here, take some, it will make thee to scutter .

To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter.

We saw a rat scuttering into a dark corner as we turned on the lights.

* bullscutter * scutterer

(en verb)

(ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.

the police scattered the crowds

the crowd scattered

* Shakespeare

Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.

To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.

Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.

* Dryden

Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?

(physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).

To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.

To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.

to scatter hopes or plans

* scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot