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scuddling

scuddling is the present participle and gerund 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 scuddling

What is scuddling the present participle and gerund of?
Scuddling is the present participle and gerund of scuddle.

Words near scuddling in the dictionary

  1. scuddle
  2. scuddled
  3. scuddler
  4. scuddlers
  5. scuddles
  6. scuddling
  7. Scuderi
  8. Scuderis
  9. scudetto
  10. scudi
  11. scudler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scuddling (page history and authors); scuddle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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