scugn.1
/skʌɡ/, U.S. /skəɡ/, Scottish English /skʌɡ/ Scottish and northern.
a. Originally, shadow; the shade or shelter afforded by a rock, bush or the like; hence, a shelter. to take scug: to take shelter.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > casting of a shadow > shadow
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > sheltered place
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shadowing placea1382
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. iv. 8 And skuggis dym of a full dern wod schaw.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. iv. 74 As Jupiter,..With erdis scug hydis the hevynis all.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 47 Thik drumly scuggis dirknit so the hevyne.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 30 In the scoug of the craig and castell is a verie quyet hauining place.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 321 Hume with sum of his cumpaniounis slipis quyetlie in the skug [L. ad umbracula], and thair he rested and hid him selfe.
1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxi. 175 Instead o' gallanting awa under the scog and cloud o' night.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Skug, a sheltered place.
1890 ‘H. Haliburton’ In Sc. Fields 33 Hastening through the rain to rustic scoogs or the shelter of friendly cottages.
b. figurative. Cloak, pretence, outward show.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > mask, cloak, disguise
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iron mask1760
domino1836
vizarding1861
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 264 How thai suld be punyst, yat beris otheris armes wrangwisly jn entencioun to do mys vnder scoug of thame couertly.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 282 That the said lord micht have sic ane skug of him [sc. a counterfeit bishop] to the eies of the peopill that be him he micht obteine the proffeit of the said benefice.
1606 W. Birnie Blame of Kirk-buriall xix. sig. F3 Under skough of the conscience scruple.
1688 A. Shields Some Notes or Heads Gaastoun 17 Some did boast of their pretended Performances, and do make them a scugg to hide their Knavery with.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxviii. 267 But brawly kent I that a' this was but a scoug to keep some ither thing oot o' sicht.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scugn.2
/skʌɡ/ dialect.
A squirrel.
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1718 J. Fox Wanderer 73 He first chid me, then depriv'd me of my poor skug.
1804 C. Smith Conversations I. 123 Scug does not very willingly expose himself in the open day far from his trees.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
scugn.3
/skʌɡ/ School slang.
(See quot. 1881.) Also in extended use. Also attributive.
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1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 82 Come fill the bowl with Bishop up, Clods, Fags, and Skugs, and Muttons. Note, Scug or Skug, a lower boy in the school, relating to sluggish.
1847 C. G. F. Gore Castles in Air xix Whereas, to lay by ten thousand a-year out of eighteen, till his best days are gone by, makes what, at Eton, we used to call, a scug of him at once.
1881 C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 312 Scug, Et[on]. Har[row]. Negatively, a boy who is not distinguished in person, in games, or social qualities. Positively, a boy of untidy, dirty, or ill-mannered habits; one whose sense of propriety is not fully developed.
1922 S. Leslie Oppidan iv. 48 A Tug was something between a scug and a hireling chorister.
1922 S. Leslie Oppidan v. 57 The sad sight of a Pop wearing a scug-cap.
1928 Observer 15 Apr. 29/4 A band of what I can only describe as ‘Scugs’ in bowler hats.
1940 E. F. Benson Final Edition ii. 27 Mr. Luxmore..wrote to a friend in withering disdain of him and his official purple as a Monsignor, declaring that he was just the same ‘sharp insignificant little scug as he had been at Eton’.
1962 J. P. Carstairs Pardon my Gun ii. 28 He was a bit of a scug but what the hell.
1980 D. Marlowe Rich Boy from Chicago xxi. 314 Many refused to talk..dismissing Lambert as a ‘scug’, a loathsome queer.
Derivatives
ˈscuggish adj.
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1911 R. Nevill Floreat Etona iii. 98 Once it began to be considered ‘scuggish’, the fate of Eton pugilism was sealed.
1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize viii. 143 You were such a scug, you see, that you didn't do those things when it was scuggish not to.
ˈscuggy adj.
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1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize v. 101 These are all college houses, in-boarders, and rather scuggy compared to out-boarders.
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scugv.
/skʌɡ/, U.S. /skəɡ/, Scottish English /skʌɡ/ Scottish and northern.absolute.1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Sept. 154/1 He hadnae call'd on the Halie Name That scugs in the evil hour.
1. transitive. To shade, shelter, screen, protect.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter
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1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. ii. 24 Joyfull and blyth thai entir in the flude, That derne about scuggit wyth bewis stude.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. vi. 90.
a1774 R. Fergusson My ain Kind Deary (song) 7 At thornie dike and birken tree, We'll daff, and ne'er be weary, O! They'll scug ill een fra you and me.
1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie II. ii. 21 I'll gang..mysel, and muddle about the root o' this affair till I get at it... Naebody in this country-side kens me; I'll be scoggit wi' my ain hamely manner.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Skug, to hide, to screen.
a1869 C. Spence From Braes of Carse (1898) 29 He has hives o' bees..Weel scouged wi' shrubs..Frae ony blast the wind can blaw.
2. reflexive and intransitive. To take cover or shelter, to hide.
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1823 W. Jameson Mem. & Lett. (1845) 94 I went to His holy table and felt like one in the pelting of a storm, scugging under Immanuel.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 187 Within their sacrify'd abodes Scougin' themsel' frae stanes and clods.
3. transitive. To take shelter from (the elements).
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1812 W. Glass Caledonian Parnassus (1814) 20 Beneath the ivy-twining bow'r, Where aft I've scoug'd the simmer show'r.
1886 ‘H. Haliburton’ Horace (1900) 43 Wind and snaw, Are far abune oor fit, But while we scoog them, let them blaw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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