Scut

Quick meaning: Scut is a noun meaning A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

Meaning

A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
2. (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
3. (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
4. (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.
5. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
6. (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.

Example Sentences

So … so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? Jesse, you are a lad; when will you learn?

I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.

Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

Word Forms

• scuts
• scutting

Synonyms for scut

Depending on context, synonyms include arsehole, ass, assface, asshat, asshole, asswipe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scute, scuttling, smeuse, scab, scutella, scrow.

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