Dictionary: SCAS – SCD

► SCASH adj. twisted, turned to one side, esp. used of the feet → 1866 Sc.
adv. in a twisted manner, awry; with a waddling, shuffling gait → 1866 Sc.
n. 1. a quarrel, a dispute, a brawl → 1768 Sc.
n. 2. a waddling, shuffling gait; a scuffling with the feet → 1866 Sc.
n. 3. an untidy or slovenly piece of dress; an untidy person, a sloven → 1895 Sc. obs.
n. 4. a blow, a thump → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 5. a twist, a wrench; a turning to one side → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to beat, to batter; to crush or press roughly or carelessly → 1801 Sc. obs.
vb. 2. to quarrel, to squabble; to wrangle; to have a heated argument or disagreement → 1801 Sc.
vb. 3. to be slovenly in dress, to wear one’s clothes in a careless manner → 1825 Sc.
vb. 4. to twist, to turn to one side; to walk in a shuffling, awkward manner with the toes turned outwards, either from deformity or affectation → 1866 Sc.
► SCASH-FOOT n. a foot with the toes turned outward → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCASH-FOOTED adj. having the toes turned outward → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCASHIE n. a squabble → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. to wrangle, to squabble → 1898 Sc.
► SCASHLE  adv. in a waddling, shuffling manner → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 1. a squabble, a wrangle; a scuffle → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 2. a twist, a wrench; a turning to one side; the act of walking with a waddling, shuffling gait; the noise made by the feet along the ground → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to quarrel, to squabble, to wrangle → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 2. to twist, to turn away; to tread on the side of one’s feet; to turn one’s toes outward; to walk in a waddling, shuffling manner; to be careless about one’s dress → Bk1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCASH-MOUTHED adj. having the mouth awry → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCASS n. 1. a blow, a thump → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 2. a twist, a wrench; a turning to one side → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to beat, to batter; to crush or press roughly or carelessly → 1801 Sc. obs.
vb. 2. to wrangle → 1801 Sc.
vb. 3. to twist, to turn awry; to tread on the side of one’s foot; to turn one’s toes outwards; to walk in a silly, affected way; to be careless about one’s dress → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCAT adj. 1. scared → 1839 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. cluttered, full to overflowing, littered → 1895 Sc.
adv. flat, ‘plump’ → 1892 Eng. dial.
int. 1. go away! → M19 sl.
int. 2. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1890 Amer. dial.
n. 1. a blow, a buffet; the stroke given by a mass of water → 1777 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a sudden passing shower of rain → 1790 Eng. dial.
n. 3. anything burst or broken open; the sound of a rent; the sharp sound as of a bullet → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 4. a spell of weather; a bout, a turn → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 5. whisky, esp. of poor quality → 1914 US criminals’ sl.
n. 6. heroin → 1970 sl.
n. 7. the vagina → 1970 African-American sl.
n. 8. a vagrant seeking work in a London market → 1984 Brit. sl.
n. 9. scatology, defecation for sexual purposes → 1980 sl.
vb. 1. to leave, to go away, esp. as a command → M19 sl.
vb. 2. to break to pieces; to burst, to split open; to smash; to slap, to beat → 1891 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to fail; to become bankrupt, to collapse → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 4. to rain hard → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 5. to scatter; to fling or throw down; to bespatter → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 6. to share → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCAT ABROAD vb. 1. to become bankrupt → 1885 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to break to pieces; to break up, to dissolve → 1885 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to open, to enlarge → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAT A PERSON MAZZLING vb. to give him a blow which render him senseless → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAT BANG adv. with the sound of a heavy fall → 1858 Eng. dial.
► SCAT CAT! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCAT CAT, GET YOUR TAIL OUT OF MY GRAVY! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1997 Amer. dial.
► SCAT CAT, YOUR TAIL’S ON FIRE! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCATCH vb. to hide → 1897 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATCH-PAWED adj. left-handed → 1814 Eng. dial. obs.
► SCATE n. 1. a prostitute → 17C sl.
n. 2. the vagina → 17C sl.
n. 3. diarrhoea → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 4. heroin → 1940 drug culture sl.
vb. to have diarrhoea; chiefly used of calves → 1777 Eng. dial.
► SCATHE n. injury, damage, hurt, loss, danger; expense → 1641 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. to injure, to damage, to destroy; to defame → 1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCATHE AND SCORN n. insult and injury, blame, reproach → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCATHEFUL adj. hurtful, injurious → 1813 Sc.
► SCATHELY adj. hurtful, injurious → 1865 Sc.
n. a young romp → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCATHY adj. ravenous; mischievous; thievish → 1691 Eng. dial.
► SCATICRAW n. a scarecrow → 1771 Sc.
► SCAT KITTY! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCATLINGS n. a whipping → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATLOE n. loss, harm, prejudice → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► SCAT-MERCHANT n. a merchant who has failed in business → 1882 Eng. dial.
► SCAT-OFF n. a blow, a slap → 1888 Eng. dial.
► SCATOMANCY n. divination by examination of excrement → 1991 (Bk.)
► SCATOPHOBIA n. an abnormal dread of using obscene language → 1991(Bk.)
► SCATTEL vb. to scare, to frighten → 1856 Eng. dial.
► SCATTER n. the throwing-out of money to be scrambled for at a wedding, on a holiday, etc. → 1915 Sc.
► SCATTERATION n. a scattering → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-BARREL n. a shotgun → 1966 Amer. dial.
► SCATTER-BASKET n. a clattering noise, as of a wheel when it requires tightening → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-BRASS n. a spendthrift → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-CASH n. a spendthrift → 1898 Sc.
► SCATTER-CORNER adv. diagonally →  1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-GOOD n. a spendthrift → 1819 Sc. obs.
► SCATTER-GUN n. 1. a shotgun → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
n. 2. a machine gun → 1944 service sl. (Bk.)
n. 3. the anus, esp. when the owner has diarrhoea → 1950 Brit. sl.
► SCATTERING adj. widely and sparsely distributed; scattered, sparse, occasional → 1666 Amer. dial.
n. a sparse number or amount → 1628 
► SCATTERLING n. a heedless person → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► SCATTERLOFISTICATE vb. to wander aimlessly, at haphazard; to range over a country; to travel → 19C western sl.
► SCATTERMENT n. a scattering; a dispersion → 1895 Sc. & Ireland & Amer. dial.
► SCATTERS n. diarrhoea, particularly of animals → 1949 sl.
► SCATTER-WILLIE n. a reckless, devil-may-care person; a scatterbrain → 1960 Sc.
► SCATTER-WIT n. a reckless, senseless person; a scatterbrain → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-WITS n. a reckless, senseless person → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCATTER-WITTED adj. senseless, harebrained; scatterbrained → 1867 Sc.  
► SCATTERY adj. sparse; scattered → 1816 
► SCAT THE CAT! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCAT THERE! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCAT THERE, YOUR SON BIT YOUR TAIL OFF! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCATTLE adj. timid, easily frightened → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to scare, to frighten → 1856 Eng. dial.
► SCATTLE-CAT n. a thieving, mischievous cat → 1874 Eng. dial.
► SCAT-TO n. a fight, a quarrel → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAT TOM! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCAT TOM, YOUR TAIL’S AFIRE! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCAT TOM, YOUR TAIL’S IN THE GRAVY! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1968 Amer. dial.
► SCATTY adj. of the weather: showery → 1746 Eng. dial.
► SCAT UP vb. to leave, to go away, esp. as a command → M19 sl.
► SCAT UP AND GO HOME vb. to break up a meeting → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAT YOUR TAIL OUT OF THE BUTTER! int. said to a person when they have sneezed → 1973 Amer. dial.
► SCATYUNS n. small potatoes → 1911 Sc.
► SCAUER adj. untidy → 1917 Amer. dial.
► SCAUF n. scurf, scum → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAULDEEN n. a cup → 1867 Ireland
► SCAUM n. 1. a burn, scorch; a mark caused by burning or singeing → 1813 Sc.
n. 2. a thin haze, a light, misty vapour → 1824 Sc.
n. 3. an appearance of scorn; scornfully abusive language → 1877 Eng. dial.
n. 4. insincere talk; banter, chaff → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. 5. litter, dust, disturbance → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to burn, to scorch, to singe → 1838 Sc.
vb. 2. to envelope in a mist or haze; to shade → 1871 Sc.
vb. 3. to bespatter, to discolour → 1904 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
vb. 4. to scratch the face with the nails → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAUMER n. a pirate, a plunderer; a cattle-lifter → 1836 Sc. obs.
► SCAUMY adj. 1. gaudy, showy in dress → 1790 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. misty, hazy; of an imperfect or disagreeable colour → 1824 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of the sky: bright, clear → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAUR n. a shower, a short flying scurry of rain → 1893 Eng. dial.
► SCAURABEE n. a term of contempt → 1895 Eng. dial.
► SCAURBERRY n. a blackberry → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAURIE n. the young of any kind of gull → 1805 Sc.
► SCAUT vb. 1. to push with the feet; to dig the feet into the ground in order to gain resistance; to stretch the legs violently → 1825 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scramble; to slip; to kick, to scratch, to scrape with the feet; to trample the ground → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAV vb. to scavenge; to scrounge → 2001 UK sl.
► SCAVAIG vb. to roam or gad about → 1932 Sc.
► SCAVEL adj. voracious, greedy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
n. a small spade used in draining, having its sides slight turned up → 1450 Eng. dial.
► SCAVEL-AN’-GOW n. the noise of confused talking; chatter, scolding; a pack of lies → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAVEN vb. to wander aimlessly about; to loiter → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAVENER n. a term of extreme contempt → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAVENGER n. 1. a privy-cleaner → 1906 Amer. dial.
n. 2. in drag racing and hot rodding: a car that wins often, that ‘eats up’ its competition → 1968 US sl.
n. 3. a private garbage collector → 1969 Amer. dial.
► SCAVENGER CART n. a garbageman’s cart → 1950 Amer. dial.
► SCAVENGER MAN n. a privy-cleaner → 1986 Amer. dial.
► SCAVENGER’S DAUGHTER n. an instrument of torture, consisting of a broad iron hoop, which was locked around the prisoner’s body, compressing it unnaturally to such an extent that the victim was effectively squeezed to death → M16 
► SCAVERNICK n. a hare → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAVEY n. 1. understanding, intelligence, awareness → L18
n. 2. a simpleton → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. to understand, to be aware of → L18 
► SCAVVY n. a scaffolder → 20C Brit. sl.
► SCAW n. 1. a faded mark, a blemish, a spot → 1825 Sc.
n. 2. an isthmus or promontory → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 1. to spoil or destroy the appearance of, esp. in respect of colour; to make shabby or faded → 1772 Sc.
vb. 2. to become faded; to lose colour → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
vb. 3. to scatter, to spill → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
vb. 4. to chafe, to peel, to abrade the skin → 1929 Sc.
► SCAWBERT n. 1. a pretentious person; one who wishes to appear above his rank → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
n. 2. a strongly-made person of a stubborn, disagreeable temper → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCAW’D adj. faded, discoloured; worthless → 1785 Sc.
► SCAW’D-LIKE adj. faded in colour → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAWM n. litter, dust, disturbance → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAWPY adj. bald, without hair on the head → 1790 Eng. dial.
► SCAWT adj. scruffy, mean, contemptible, scanty, niggling; short of due measure → 1715 Sc.
► SCAWT ABOUT vb. to skulk, to be lazy or idle; to stand or walk about doing nothing → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCAWVY adj. uneven in colour; blotched, streaky, mottled, smeary; of a rough, unclean appearance → 1777 Eng. dial.