Shakespeare's use of the word scut may be a sly reference to Mistress Ford's pudenda: see sense 3.

I rumpled her Feathers, and tickled her Scut, / And play'd the round Rubbers at two handed Put.

So … so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? Jesse, you are a lad; when will you learn?

One of the sisters backed up to the fire and hiked up the tail of her dress and bent over and thrust out her scut to it and stared at Inman with a look of glazed pleasure in her blue eyes.

She didn't need a new dress! Me money! Me hard earned three hundred that I scraped and scrimped for. Me scut of a daughter puttin' it on her back in finery.

I dreamt that Ruairi Quinn was smokin' marijuana in the Dail. Barry Desmond handing Frenchies out to scuts in Fianna Fail.

CHRIS. Danny Bradley is a scut, Rose. / ROSE. I never said it was Danny Bradley! / CHRIS. He's a married man with three young children.

Ruth had snapped open her purse and pulled out a small gun. I grabbed her arm and yanked her into the car; she squawked and her shot went wide. … "You scut," she said as we hit the entrance ramp of the interstate. "You're a scut-pumping Conservative. You made me miss."

Fat-headed scut. That's what he is, scut. Thinks he runs the whole river.

Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon.

And the scut of weeding or washing clothes or waiting in the dentist's waiting room or the soccer field parking lot is actually far less brutalizing than the scut of grading freshman essays …

"What if you were called a scut puppy?" / "When I first started I was one. A scut puppy is usually a medical student or a nurse who does menial tasks. That's how a person learns in the beginning. We are under others who will teach us and work our tails off."

So they give the people assigned to the Probation Squad every scut case that other squads don't want to handle.

There's no question that it's sexist. [Female residents] are berated more on rounds, given more scut to do.

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