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scaith

scaith noun: injury; wound.

Noun

scaith (countable and uncountable, plural scaiths)

  1. (Scotland) Injury; wound.
    • Watty's a kind-hearted creature ; and ye may be sure that neither scaith nor scant will be alloo't to come near the wean while it stays in this house.1936, John Galt, William Roughead, The entail: or, The lairds of Grippy, page 314
    • Beg him to help her in her just suit at the Queen of England's hands, and that she may have some redress of her scaiths to the comfort of her poor husband and bairns.2001, Joan Druett, She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea, →ISBN, page 48

Verb

scaith (third-person singular simple present scaiths, present participle scaithing, simple past and past participle scaithed)

  1. (Scotland) To injure; to wound.
    • She has scaithed us most wickedly, an' I dinna think she should hev forgiveness.1896, John Horne, A canny countryside, page 119
    • Ye led him on tae tell ye how the greencoat scaithed him.1940, Neil Harmon Swanson, The Silent Drum, page 159
    Synonyms:
    damage, harm, abuse, annoy, bewound, damnify, dere, do damage to, do for, do ill

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Forms of scaith

Noun
pluralscaiths
Verb
third-person singular presentscaiths
present participlescaithing
past participlescaithed
pastscaithed

Origin of scaith

Alternative form of scathe.

Questions about scaith

What does scaith mean?
Scaith means injury; wound.
What part of speech is scaith?
Scaith can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of scaith?
The plural of scaith is scaiths.

Words near scaith in the dictionary

  1. scags
  2. Scaife
  3. Scaifes
  4. scainiite
  5. scairt
  6. scaith
  7. scaithed
  8. scaithing
  9. scaithless
  10. scaiths
  11. scal

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