scad

English
herring scad

Etymology

Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /skad/, /skæd/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æd

Noun

scad (plural scads or scad)

  1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
  2. (chiefly in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot
    scads of money
    • 1966, United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare, Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
      You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.
    • 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine‎:
      Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […] , mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)

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Translations

References
  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “scad”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. “Scads: A whole lot of fishy.”, The Word Detective, April 24th, 2009

Anagrams

Aromanian

Alternative forms
  • scadu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *excadeō, from Latin ex- + cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian scădea, scad.

Verb

scad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative scadi or scade, past participle scãdzutã)

  1. to decrease, diminish, reduce
  2. to decline
  3. to subtract
  • scãdeari/scãdeare
  • scãderi
  • scãdzut
  • scãdzui
  • cad

See also
  • sclãghescu

Romanian

Verb

scad

  1. inflection of scădea:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Scots

Verb

scad

  1. scald
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