Definition of "scut" in English

noun

1. (obsolete) A hare; (hunting, also figuratively) a hare as the game in a hunt.

2. A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.

   • 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 pudenda, the vulva.

noun

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

noun

1. (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery

2. (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.

verb

1. (intransitive, originally Cumbria, East Anglia, Yorkshire) To scamper off.