the scuts

the shits, diarrhoea, pooing a lot

aw crap im in bits, after all that guinness last night i have a touch of the scuts today.

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scut

Past tense of scoot

I asked him to scoot, and he scut

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scut

Used frequently in teaching hospitals by junior residents and medical students to describe mindless and thankless errands, such as chasing down radiology reports, drawing blood, and staying on hold with public health -- anything which is heavy on the "service" and light on the "education."

Apparently derived from scutwork, meaning "the work of a useless person."

"I don't know if I'll survive grand rounds today. I was up all night running scut."

"I hear rotating at hospital XYZ is a better learning experience than hospital ABC... less scut."

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scut

In certain parts of Ireland the word scut was used to tell off their children. Like feck is the softer version of fuck. Scut would have been used in this way as it was the softer version of shite. Being a lad from the West of Ireland this word was bandied about in my area quite a bit.

Scut would have been shortened from scutter which as any farmer will tell you is not a pretty sight out the backside of an afflicted cow (terribly bad liquid diarrhoea). So when your ma was saying 'you're some scut,' 'you little scut,' or 'come here you scut ya,' she was calling you a shit or a shite but in the nice clean way. Not swearing at all was she!

Also is you were on the town for a night out and say, the food you ate turned out to be bad, you might find yourself sitting on the loo for a few days after evacuating your bowels at a tremendous rate you would have a 'dose of the scuts.'

If someone is talking shit or shite in certain parts of Ireland they could be said to be 'talking pure scutter.'

You're some scut.

Come here you scut ya.

You little scut.

He has a dose of the scuts.

He's talking pure scutter.

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Scut

Scut seems to have regional variations depending where you are in Ireland. In Fermanagh it means a naughty child or someone who is mildly annoying. It does not have the negative overtones suggested by other posters

"Declans child is an awful scut, he stole a chocolate bar when I wasnt looking at the shop"

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Scutting

Holding on to a moving luas tram in dublin for the banter

aww laaaad sure well do a bit of scutting

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scut

(skuuut)n. sailor term. a cut, groove, divet or gash in the deck, hull or prow of a boat usually caused by an accident or battle.

slang- a nasty, dirty or annoying female. female reproductive organs.

"Aye, thar be a scut in the prow me matey!", sailor winksie
"i be stashin' me boogers in that scut on the deck.", sailor billy-no0b

"ew! like, she is SUCH a scut!", some mall rat

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