• (RP) IPA: /skʌt/
• (GA) IPA: /skʌt/, /skət/

scut (plural scuts)

1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also, figuratively) a hare as the game#Noun|game in a hunt#Noun|hunt.
2. A short#Adjective|short, erect tail#Noun|tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene v], page 51 ↗, column 1:

     M[istress] Ford. Sir Iohn: Art thou there (my Deere?) / Fal[staff.] My Doe, with the blacke Scut?

     small Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

3. (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female#Adjective|female pudenda, the vulva.

• German: Blume
• Italian: codino

scut (plural scuts)

1. (chiefly, Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:git

scut

1. (also, attributively) Distasteful work#Noun|work; drudgery; specifically (medicine, slang) some menial procedure left for a doctor#Noun|doctor or medical student to complete#Verb|complete, sometimes for training#Noun|training purposes.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:drudgery

scut (scuts, present participle scutting; past and past participle scut)

1. (intransitive, originally, Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.
   • 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter I, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, OCLC 1881984 ↗, page 41 ↗:

     ―A fat lot you know about it, Thunder! Wells said. I know why they scut.