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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--scut scut (skut) noun A worthless, contemptible fellow. This term often appears in the form "scut work". [Or uncertain origin, perhaps from scout.] A short erect tail, especially of a hare, rabbit, or deer. [Of unknown origin.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "The Voice: Heave a rope when we come alongside. [Then irritably.] Where are ye, ye scut?" Eugene O'Neill; Anna Christie; 1922. This week's theme: insults. X-Bonus A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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