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noun
A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
A contemptible person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, colloquial
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Synonyms: arsehole, ass, assface, asshat, asshole, asswipe, bastard, bitch, blackguard, blaggard, buttlicker, buttmunch, carrion, cockhead, cocklicker, cocksucker, cowson, crud, cunt, dick, dickhead, dickwad, dickweed, dipshit, douche, douchebag, douchecanoe, douchewagon, earthworm, fribble, fucker, fuckface, fuckhead, fuckstain, fucktard, git, heel, hilding, insect, jackass, jerk, loser, louse, mahfugga, mongrel, motherfucker, paskudnyak, pigwidgeon, pigfucker, prick, queef, raasclaat, ratfink, schmuck, scrub, scut, sewer rat, sheep-biter, shit, shitbird, shitehawk, shitface, shithead, skate, slag, son of a bitch, son of a gun, son of a whore, stinker, swine, turdball, twattock, wankpuffin, whoreson, worm, yutz
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noun
Distasteful work; drudgery
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: chores, drudgery, drudgework, fatigue, razzmatazz, scut, scutwork, swink, toil
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noun
Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To scamper off.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: East-Anglia, Yorkshire, intransitive
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noun
a short erect tail
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tail
History
From Middle English scut (“hare”); further etymology uncertain, possibly related to Middle English scut, scute (“short”), possibly from Old French escorter, escurter, or Latin excurtāre, scurtāre, from curtō (“to cut short, shorten”), from curtus (“short; shortened”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”)) + -ō. A derivation from Old Norse skut, skutr (“stern of a boat”), or Icelandic skott (“animal's tail”) is thought to be unlikely. As to sense 3 (“the female pudenda, the vulva”), see the letter of 5 June 1875 from Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris published in One Touch of Shakespeare (1986).
Uncertain, possibly a variant of scout (“(obsolete except Scotland) contemptible person”), possibly related to scout (“to reject with contempt; to scoff”), from a North Germanic language; compare Old Norse skúta, skúte (“a taunt”), probably from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną (“to shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to shoot; to throw”). Compare Old Norse skútyrði, skotyrði (“abusive language”).
Uncertain; perhaps related to scut (“contemptible person”): see etymology 2.
Origin unknown; perhaps from scut(tle), or related to Swedish skutta (“to leap”).
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