Definitions for scut

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Spelling: [skuht]
IPA: /skʌt/

Scut is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in scut (cstu).

Definitions for scut

noun

  1. a short tail, especially that of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
  2. a worthless, contemptible person.

Origin of scut

1400-50; late Middle English: hare Old Norse skutr stern

Examples for scut

How the Indian Hare came to have a long tail, whereas that part in others attains no higher than a scut?

Both male and female have a dark line down the back, rump, and scut.

The white napkin whisked like the scut of a rabbit, and he bounded to my side.

The fox sprang at it, too late, for the white fangs closed emptily behind its scut.

On his head is a little round cap, with a tuft made out of a hare's or rabbit's scut.

Pinch its scut or bite its ears, and when it exclaims, "Miauw!"

scut; the tail of a hare or rabbit: often applied in scorn to a contemptible fellow:—'He's just a scut and nothing better.'

The derivation of Mone, who makes scuz and scut altered forms of srot or srut, is not to be entertained.

Fluff-Button doubled away nimbly from his rush, but even so the dog's jaws snapped together just behind his scut.

When the wheel broke up there was nothing of her left except her scut, which lay upon the ground.

Word Value for scut
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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