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▪ I. scuddy, a.1 and n. Sc.|ˈskʌdɪ|
A. adj. Naked. Also scuddy-naked.
1829J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 II. 267 Some skuddy-naked, some clothed in duds. 1831Ibid. III. 286 Strip a kintra lass..perfectly skuddy. 1906N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Jan. 79/1 Scuddy little dolls.
B. n. A naked child. Also, an unfledged bird.
1815W. Finlayson Simple Sc. Rhymes 92 (E.D.D.) Wad ye hae them to rin like scuddies Without a rag? 1865Janet Hamilton Poems, Ess. & Sk. (1870) 67 The mavis nest O' naked scuddies fu'.
▪ II. ˈscuddy, a.2
[f. scud n.2 + -y.]
Turbid, full of sediment.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 872/2 It sometimes happens that wines scuddy and stubborn will not fall with one or even two forcings. 1872Thudichum & Dupré Treat. on Wine xx. 633 The wines are spoiled during fermentation, become acidified, scuddy. 1964R. Braddon Year Angry Rabbit xi. 94 Jacks..at once flung himself gratefully into a chair, spilling half his cold, scuddy tea into his lap as he did so.
Add: Hence ˈscuddiness n. (esp. in Wine-Making).
1831J. Busby Let. in Jrnl. Rec. Visit Princ. Vineyards (1834) 59, I thought it was easy to account for the scuddiness which so generally attacks Sherry Wines... The grapes were by no means in reality decayed. This shook my faith in scuddiness being the result of the employment of decayed grapes. 1972Bottlers' Year Bk. 1972–73 395 Scuddiness. |