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scuddled

scuddled is the simple past and past participle of scuddle.

Meaning of scuddle

Verb

scuddle (third-person singular simple present scuddles, present participle scuddling, simple past and past participle scuddled)

  1. (intransitive) To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.
    • A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4
  2. (Scotland, intransitive) To drudge.
  3. (Scotland, transitive) To wash or cleanse.

Questions about scuddled

What is scuddled the simple past and past participle of?
Scuddled is the simple past and past participle of scuddle.

Words near scuddled in the dictionary

  1. scudding
  2. scudding sail
  3. scudding sails
  4. scuddings
  5. scuddle
  6. scuddled
  7. scuddler
  8. scuddlers
  9. scuddles
  10. scuddling
  11. Scuderi

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