scud
verb /skʌd/
/skʌd/
[intransitive] (literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they scud | /skʌd/ /skʌd/ |
| he / she / it scuds | /skʌdz/ /skʌdz/ |
| past simple scudded | /ˈskʌdɪd/ /ˈskʌdɪd/ |
| past participle scudded | /ˈskʌdɪd/ /ˈskʌdɪd/ |
| -ing form scudding | /ˈskʌdɪŋ/ /ˈskʌdɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. (of clouds) to move quickly across the sky
- Puffy white clouds were scudding past.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryScud is used with these nouns as the subject:- cloud
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut ‘short tale of a hare’, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’.