scuts

Noun (1)

scut (plural scuts)

1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
   • Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.
3. (broadly) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
   • I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2

Noun (2)

scut (plural scuts)

1. (Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
   • He sped off towards Conway's corner. God speed scut.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 82

   Synonyms:

   arsehole, ass, assface, asshat, asshole, asswipe, bastard, bitch, blackguard, blaggard

Noun (3)

scut (countable and uncountable, plural scuts)

1. (attributive) Distasteful work; drudgery
   • Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon.1998, Jonathan Kellerman, chapter 17, in Billy Straight: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 112; republished London: Headline Publishing Group, 2009, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   chores, drudgery, drudgework, fatigue, razzmatazz, scutwork, swink, toil

2. (slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
   • There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.1999, Patricia L. Dawson, Forged by the Knife: The Experience of Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color, Seattle, Wash.: Open Hand Pub., →ISBN, page 100

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