scudding

English

Verb

scudding

1. present participle and gerund of scud

Noun

scudding (plural scuddings)

1. The action of the verb to scud.
   • 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:

     The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.

Adjective

scudding (not comparable)

1. That scuds or scud.
   • 2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 August 2019:

     Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack.

   • 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:

     all times I have enjoy'd
     Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
     That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
     Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10)
     Vext the dim sea