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scug

/skʌɡ/ US, UK, Southern England
/skɐɡ/ Australia, New Zealand
/skʊɡ/ Northern England

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Scottish and Northern English from Old Norse skuggi, from Proto-Germanic *skuwwô (“shadow, reflection”). Cognate with Icelandic skuggi, Swedish skugga, Danish skygge, Old English sċūa, sċūwa (“a shade”).

noun scugs · skug · scoug · skoog

Northern England, Scotland Shade, shadow.
Northern England, Scotland A shelter, a sheltered place (especially on the side of a hill). We was jickering along […] under the scug o' the hill.
dialectal A squirrel. "Let's go scug-hunting" is a common phrase. […] a stick with a leaden head, used for knocking down birds and scugs (squirrels).
dated, slang A lower-school or inferior boy. […] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis.

verb scugs · scugging · scugged · skug · scoug

Northern England, Scotland, transitive To shelter; to protect.
Northern England, Scotland, intransitive To hide; to take shelter.

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@misc{scug_2026,
  title = {scug},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scug},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}