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▪ I. scug, n.1 Sc. and north.|skʌg|
Forms: 5–7 (9) scoug, 6 skug, (skowg, skugg, 7 skough, scugg, scugge), 9 sco(o)g, skoug, 6– scug.
[a. ON. skugge wk. masc., shadow (Sw. skugga fem., Norw. skugge, Da. skygge) = OE. scu(w)a, OHG. scuwo shade, Goth. skuggwa mirror:—OTeut. *skuwon-.]
1. Originally, shadow; the shade or shelter afforded by a rock, bush or the like; hence, a shelter. to take scug: to take shelter.
1513Douglas æneis vi. iv. 8 And skuggis dym of a full dern wod schaw. Ibid. 74 As Jupiter,..With erdis scug hydis the hevynis all. Ibid. vii. Prol. 47 Thik drumly scuggis dirknit so the hevyne. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1888) I. 30 In the scoug of the craig and castell is a verie quyet hauining place. Ibid. II. 321 Hume with sum of his cumpaniounis slipis quyetlie in the skug [orig. ad umbracula], and thair he rested and hid him selfe. 1823Galt Entail xxi, Instead o' gallanting awa under the scog and cloud o' night. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Skug, a sheltered place. 1890‘H. Haliburton’ In Scottish Fields 33 Hastening through the rain to rustic scoogs or the shelter of friendly cottages.
b. fig. Cloak, pretence, outward show.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 281 How thai suld be punyst that beris otheris armes wrangwisly, in entencioun to do mys under scoug of thame covertly. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) II. 282 That the said lord micht have sic ane skug of him [sc. a counterfeit bishop] to the eies of the peopill that be him he micht obteine the proffeit of the said benefice. 1606W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall xix. (1833) F 3, Under skough of the conscience scruple. 1688A. Shields Notes & Heads (1709) 17 (Jam.) Some did boast of their pretended performances, and so make them a scugg to hide their knavery with. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb (1873) 215 But brawly kent I that a' this was but a scoug to keep some ither thing oot o' sicht.
▪ II. scug, n.2 dial.|skʌg|
A squirrel.
1718J. Fox Wanderer 73 He first chid me, then depriv'd me of my poor skug. 1804C. Smith Conversat., etc. I. 123 Scug does not very willingly expose himself in the open day far from his trees.
▪ III. scug, n.3 School slang.|skʌg|
Also skug.
(See quot. 1881.) Also in extended use. Also attrib. Hence ˈscuggish, ˈscuggy adjs.
1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 82 Come fill the bowl with Bishop up, Clods, Fags, and Skugs, and Muttons. Note, Scug or Skug, a lower boy in the school, relating to sluggish. 1847Mrs. Gore Castles in Air xix, Whereas, to lay by ten thousand a-year out of eighteen, till his best days are gone by, makes what, at Eton, we used to call, a scug of him at once. 1881Everyday Life in Public Sch. 312, Scug, Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed. 1911R. Nevill Floreat Etona iii. 98 Once it began to be considered ‘scuggish’, the fate of Eton pugilism was sealed. 1916E. F. Benson David Blaize v. 101 These are all college houses, in-boarders, and rather scuggy compared to out-boarders. Ibid. viii. 143 You were such a scug, you see, that you didn't do those things when it was scuggish not to. 1922S. Leslie Oppidan iv. 48 A Tug was something between a scug and a hireling chorister. Ibid. v. 57 The sad sight of a Pop wearing a scug-cap. 1928Observer 15 Apr. 29/4 A band of what I can only describe as ‘Scugs’ in bowler hats. 1940E. F. Benson Final Edition ii. 27 Mr. Luxmore..wrote to a friend in withering disdain of him and his official purple as a Monsignor, declaring that he was just the same ‘sharp insignificant little scug as he had been at Eton’. 1962J. P. Carstairs Pardon my Gun ii. 28 He was a bit of a scug but what the hell. 1980D. Marlowe Rich Boy from Chicago xxi. 314 Many refused to talk..dismissing Lambert as a ‘scug’, a loathsome queer.
▪ IV. scug, v. Sc. and north.|skʌg|
Forms: 6, 8–9 scug, 6, 9 scoug, 9 sco(o)g, skug.
[f. scug n.1]
1. trans. To shade, shelter, screen, protect.
1513Douglas æneis vii. ii. 24 Joyfull and blyth thai entir in the flude, That derne about scuggit wyth bewis stude. Ibid. viii. vi. 90. a 1774 Fergusson Song, ‘My ain kind Deary, O!’ 7 At thornie dike and birken tree, We'll daff, and ne'er be weary, O! They'll scug ill een fra you and me. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie II. ii. 21 I'll gang..mysel, and muddle about the root o' this affair till I get at it... Naebody in this country-side kens me; I'll be scoggit wi' my ain hamely manner. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Skug, to hide, to screen. 1898C. Spence From Braes of Carse 29 He has hives o' bees..Weel scouged wi' shrubs..Frae ony blast the wind can blaw.
absol.1818Edin. Mag. Sept. 154/1 He hadnae call'd on the Halie Name That scugs in the evil hour.
2. refl. and intr. To take cover or shelter, to hide.
1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 187 Within their sacrify'd abodes Scougin' themsel' frae stanes and clods. 1823W. Jameson Mem. & Lett. (1845) 94, I went to His holy table and felt like one in the pelting of a storm, scugging under Immanuel.
3. trans. To take shelter from (the elements).
1812W. Glass Caledonian Parnassus (1814) 20 Beneath the ivy-twining bow'r, Where aft I've scoug'd the simmer show'r. 1886‘H. Haliburton’ Horace (1900) 43 Wind and snaw, Are far abune oor fit, But while we scoog them, let them blaw. |