scud

1. 1.

   the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)

   Synonymsscudding

   Broaderspeed

Other forms of scud

plural

scuds·

past tense or participle

scudded

present participle

scudding

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scud

What does scud mean?

scud means "run or move very quickly or hastily". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scud?

scud has 1 syllable: scud. In IPA it is /ˈskʌd/.

What is another word for scud?

Close synonyms include dart, dash, scoot, flash, shoot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scud a common word?

scud is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.