scudding
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]scudding
- present participle and gerund of scud
Noun
[edit]scudding (plural scuddings)
- The action of the verb to scud.
- 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
Adjective
[edit]scudding (not comparable)
- That scuds or scud.
- 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:
- Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack.
- 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:
- all times I have enjoy'd
Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)
Vext the dim sea