Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
skug .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To hide.
- noun Prov. Eng. A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland shade, shadow.
- noun Scotland a shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill).
- noun dated (
slang ) A lower-school or inferior boy. - verb Scotland (
transitive ) To shelter; to protect. - verb Scotland (
intransitive ) To hide; to take shelter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a few moments we become regrettably flippant, and toy with the idea of composing a Handbook to Eton in the Sellar-Yeatman style, beginning with the sentence: "No scug is permitted to order a strawberry pop in the mess."
Try Anything Twice 1938
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A scurvy, vermiform scug with a serpentine twinkle in his solitary eye.
on writing by stephen king scribner 2000
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We 'll daff and never weary, O! They' ll scug ill een frae you and me,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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'Twas smooth water wi 'us, for 'twas a scug there, but white enough was all beyont the point; and passing the finger-stone, not forty fathom from the shore o' the island, Bill and me pullin 'and he sittin' in the stern, poor lad, up he rises, a bit rabblin 'to himself, wi' his hands lifted so.
J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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