Sanas of Scud, Scudding, Skedaddle

[Mullins, Bill]

Dan has sent several interesting items to the list lately, but their
formatting is such that I can hardly read them.  Is there a flag in the AOL
software that can be set to fix this?


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> From: Daniel Cassidy [mailto:DanCas1 at AOL.COM]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 1:08 AM
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> Subject: Sanas of Scud, Scudding, Skedaddle
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> Subject:      Sanas of Scud, Scudding, Skedaddle
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> Scud, Scudding
> Sciuird (pron.  scoord),  pl. Sciurdeanna (pron.  scoordang,
> =E2=80=9Cnn=E2= =80=9D =3D "ng=E2=80=9D )=20 Rush, dash;
> flying quickly; a quick run, a rapid  run; a swift race; a
> flyin= g=20 visit. (Dineen, p. 975; O'Donaill, p. 1055)  (al.
> sci=C3=BArd)=20
>
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> Thug siad sciuird reatha thar an droichead, they made a
> quick run over the=20 bridge.=20
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> Paddy is an old Irish-born seaman in The Hairy Ape.=20 =20
> PADDY: =E2=80=9COh to be scudding south again wid the power
> of the  Trade Wi= nd=20 driving her steady through the nights
> and days! ...the foam of the  wake wou= ld be=20 flaming wid
> fire...=E2=80=9D (O'Neill, The Hairy Ape, p. 214)=20
>
>
> Irish jack tars, merchant seaman, sailors. and privateers,
> called  themselve= s=20 boca=C3=AD aniar (buccaneers), "wild
> playboys of the  west " as they went sc= udding=20 across the
> world's oceans.
> =20
> =20
> Scud, v. run, move swiftly. 1532...perhaps verb use of
> Middle English scut,= =20 rabbit, rabbit=E2=80=99s tail
> (1440); early scot  (probably before 1300); of=  uncertain=20
> origin." (Barnhart, p.  974)=20
>
>
> On that note, it is time for me to skedaddle, before a gang
> of Harvard=20 English Professors  force me to pledge
> allegiance  to the OED.=20 =20 =20 Skedaddle=20
> Sciuird ar d=C3=B3l=C3=A1mh    (pron. scoord ar dolaaw)
> An all out rush, a quick flying dash.=20 =20
> Sciuird: rush, dash; quick run, flying visit. (OD, p. 1055,
> see  above) Ar d=C3=B3l=C3=A1mh (ar dolaaw, "mh" =3D "w"),
> all out, strenuously, with bo= th  hands.=20 =20 =20 MILLER
> (preemptorily): =E2=80=9CYou kids skedaddle =E2=80=93 all  of you.=
> =E2=80=9D   (O'Neill, Ah=20
> Wilderness, p. 93)
> =20
> =20
> Skedaddle... skeedaddle, v.i. (Of  soldiers) to flee;
> originates 1861, (in)=20 U.S. 'The American War  has produced
> a new and amusing word. Probably of=20 fanciful origin,
> though H's 'The word is very fair Greek, the root being th= at of =20
> "skeddadumi", to disperse, to retire tumultuously,   and it
> was probably set=
> =20
> afloat from some Professor at  Harvard' is not to be
> dismissed with contempt= .'  =20
>   A Dictionary of Slang, Eric Partridge, p. 1076.
> =20
> Time to scram (scaraim, I depart,  separate, fig. "split")=20
> =20 =20 Daniel Cassidy=20 The Irish Studies Program=20 New
> College of California =20 San Francisco =20 12.17.04=20
>