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scutch
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skʌtʃ
/
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skuhch
]
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verb (used with object)
1.
to dress (flax) by beating.
2.
to dress (brick or stone); scotch.
noun
3.
Also called
scutch·er.
a device for scutching flax fiber.
4.
Also,
scotch.
a small picklike tool with two cutting edges for trimming brick.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Origin:
1680–90;
<
Middle French
*escoucher
(
French
écoucher
) to beat flax <
Vulgar Latin
*excuticāre,
for
Latin
excutere
(
ex-
ex-
1
+
-cutere,
combining form of
quatere
to shatter;
compare
quash
)
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