Noun: scug
Sample Sentences
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We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill. [1897, Outlaws, Hamilton, page 156:]
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"Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels). [1883, Alfred Easther, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 78:]
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[…] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis. [1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 75:]
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Scug, Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed. [1881, C. E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, page 312:]
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A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant. If not naturally vicious, a scug was considered degenerate. [1969, Ralph G. Martin, Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895, Prentice-Hall, page 54:]
Nouns inflected like scug
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
skuggi', Icelandic Nouns '
skuggi', Swedish Nouns '
skugga', Danish Nouns '
skygge', Old English Nouns '
sċūa'.