Scug
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /skʌɡ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scug is a noun meaning (Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.
Meaning
(Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.
More Meanings
- (Northern England, Scotland) A shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
- (Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.
- (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To hide; to take shelter.
- (dialectal) A squirrel.
- (dated, slang) A lower-school or inferior boy.
Example Sentences
We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill.
[…] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis.
"Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).
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.
Word Forms
- scugs
- scugging
- scugged
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include skug, shud, scud, scrag, scrog, skeg.
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