scug

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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”).

Pronunciation

Noun

scug (plural scugs)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Shade, shadow.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) A shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
    • 1897, Outlaws, Hamilton, page 156:
      We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill.
  3. (dialectal) A squirrel.
    • 1883, Alfred Easther, A Glossary of the Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, page 78:
      "Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).
  4. (dated, slang) A lower-school or inferior boy.
    • 1865, Bracebridge Hemyng, Butler Burke at Eton, page 75:
      […] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis.
    • 1881, C. E. Pascoe, Everyday Life in our Public Schools, page 312:
      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.
    • 1969, Ralph G. Martin, Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895, Prentice-Hall, page 54:
      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.

Verb

scug (third-person singular simple present scugs, present participle scugging, simple past and past participle scugged)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, transitive) To shelter; to protect.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland, intransitive) To hide; to take shelter.

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