Posted on

How to Pronounce Scud: Learn how to pronounce Scud in English correctly

Learn how to say Scud correctly in English with this tutorial pronunciation video.

Oxford dictionary definition of the word scud:

verb (scuds, scudding, scudded)
1 [no object, with adverbial of direction] move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind:
we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky
three small ships were scudding before a brisk breeze
2 [with object] chiefly Scottish slap, beat, or spank:
she scudded me across the head
1chiefly literary a mass of vapoury clouds or spray driven fast by the wind:
the water is glassy under a scud of mist
[mass noun]:
the picturesque shoreline disappeared into low-cloud scud and rain
a driving shower of rain or snow; a gust:
scuds of rain gave way to sun
[mass noun] the action of moving fast in a straight line when driven by the wind:
the scud of the clouds before the wind
2 (Scud or Scud missile) a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.
[a code name assigned by NATO to a series of such missiles developed by the former Soviet Union]
mid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut1, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’