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scutting

scutting is the present participle and gerund of scut.

Meaning of scut

Verb

scut (third-person singular simple present scuts, present participle scutting, simple past and past participle scut)

  1. (East-Anglia, Yorkshire, intransitive) To scamper off.
    • ―A fat lot you know about it, Thunder! Wells said. I know why they scut.1916, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 41

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Questions about scutting

What is scutting the present participle and gerund of?
Scutting is the present participle and gerund of scut.

Words near scutting in the dictionary

  1. scutterer
  2. scutterers
  3. scuttering
  4. scutterings
  5. scutters
  6. scutting
  7. scuttle
  8. scuttle flies
  9. scuttle fly
  10. scuttle-butt
  11. scuttle-butted

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