Sput vs Scut - What's the difference?
sput | scut |
An annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.
(Webster 1913)
A short, erect tail, as of a hare or rabbit
rump, pudenda, vulva
* a.'' 1602 , William Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor , V, 4, 19
* a.'' 1968 , Keith Roberts, "The Lady Margaret", in ''Modern Classics of Science Fiction , ed. Gardner R. Dozois, 1993, page 233
* 1997 , Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
A slut; whore; hussy
* 1954 , Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken , page 49
* a.'' 1989 , Pat Cadigan, "Pretty Boy Crossover", in ''Modern Classics of Science Fiction , ed. Gardner R. Dozois, 1993, page 565
To scamper off
* 1916 , , (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 47)
A contemptible person.
* 1954 , Paul Vincent Carroll, The Wise Have Not Spoken , page 49
* a.'' 1989 , Pat Cadigan, "Pretty Boy Crossover", in ''Modern Classics of Science Fiction , ed. Gardner R. Dozois, 1993, page 565
* 1993 , Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa , page 14
* 2005 , Dean Whitlock, Sky Carver , page 108
Distasteful work; drudgery.
* 1999 , Patricia L. Dawson Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color , page 100
* 1999 , Jonathan Kellerman, Billy Straight , page 112
* 2001 , Catherine Miles Wallace, Motherhood in the Balance: Children, Career, Me, and God , page 163
* 2003 , Virginia G. Salazar, Gone: A Sci Fi about Cloning , page 144
* a.'' 2004 , Clark Howard, "The Leper Colony", in ''The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Fifth Annual Collection , ed. Martin H. Greenberg, 2004
(slang, medicine) Some menial, common unfinished task left for medical students, or some clinically useful training.
As nouns the difference between sput and scut
is that sput is an annular reinforcement in a steam boiler, to strengthen a place where a hole is made while scut is a short, erect tail, as of a hare or rabbit.As a verb scut is
to scamper off.sput
English
Noun
(en noun)scut
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Mrs. Ford. Sir John ! art thou there, my deer ? my male deer ?
- Falstaff. My doe with the black scut !
- "So ... so she show you her pretty li'l scut , he? [...]."
- One of the sisters backed up to the fire and hiked up the tail of her dress and bent over and thrust out her scut to it and stared at Inman with a look of glazed pleasure in her blue eyes.
- Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery. [...]
- "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut -pumping Conservative.
Verb
- "I know why they scut ."
Etymology 2
Probably an alteration of scout (obsolete sense), itself from (etyl) (en)Noun
(en noun)- "[...] Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery. [...]"
- "You scut ," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative."
- Chris. Danny Bradley is a scut , Rose.
- Rose. I never said it was Danny Bradley!
- Chris. He's a married man with three young children.
- "Fat-headed scut'. That's what he is, ' scut . Thinks he runs the whole river."
Etymology 3
From (etyl) shoute, scoute, skoute, shute, schuit (=modern Dutch), scut - "flat-bottomed boat, barge; the master of a shoute''; also, a sailor on a ''shoute ."Noun
(en noun)- "[...] [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do. [...]"
- "Let's devote mornings to the scut , do real work in the afternoon. [....]"
- And the scut' of weeding or washing clothes or waiting in the dentist's waiting room or the soccer field parking lot is actually far less brutalizing than the ' scut of grading freshman essays [....]
- "What if you were called a scut' puppy?' "When I first started I was one. A ' scut puppy is usually a medical student or a nurse who does menial tasks.
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- "[....] So they give the people assigned to the Probation Squad every scut case that other squads don't want to handle."
