SCUDDICK also SCUDDOCK, SCUTTICK, SKIDDICK, SKUDDICK NOUN a very small coin or amount; also, something very small ...1823 Eng. dial. & sl. ETYMOLOGY of unknown origin; possibly from the dialect word 'scud' (a wisp of straw); Wiktionary suggests it comes from 'sceat' (a small Saxon coin) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1823 - "Scuddick is used negatively; ‘not a scuddick’—not any brads, not a whinn, empty clies." From: Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life. - Jon Bee (pseudonym); real name: John Badcock EXAMPLE "...I'll tell you what I mean to do: I won't pay one farthing - no, I won't pay one scuttick towards the taxes, nor the Poor's rate, nor the parson neither, not till I find something to satisfy my mind. ..." From: Election Speech Newport (I.W.), 1831
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Neil
15/11/2024 04:31:04 am
I knew I wasn’t going mad!
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