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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language

scud

 verb
     
Related topics: Nature
scud past tense and past participle scudded, present participle scudding [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] literary
DN if clouds scud across the sky, they move quickly
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