- a driving shower of rain or snow, to rain in a windy blast. To scud means both to travel rapidly and to administer a thrashing. Both of these meanings are carried into scudder. During the past week we have experienced some gey caul’ scudders (Huntly Express (22 July 1949).
Anyone who has ever waited at an Edinburgh bus-stop on a rainy day, with an outside-in umbrella, will recognise A scudderin’-dudderin’ wund blawin’ doon the street (Scots Magazine July 1897).