scud

verb
🔊/skʌd/
🔊/skʌd/
[intransitive] (literary)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they scud
🔊/skʌd/
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he / she / it scuds
🔊/skʌdz/
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past simple scudded
🔊/ˈskʌdɪd/
🔊/ˈskʌdɪd/
past participle scudded
🔊/ˈskʌdɪd/
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-ing form scudding
🔊/ˈskʌdɪŋ/
🔊/ˈskʌdɪŋ/
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  1. + adv./prep. (of clouds) to move quickly across the sky飞掠;疾飞
    • Puffy white clouds were scudding past.蓬松的白云刺穿过去。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryScud is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • cloud
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut ‘short tale of a hare’, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’.