scudding

The action of the verb to scud.

Adjective

  1. That scuds or scud.
    • 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...
    • 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 - 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses:

Noun

  1. The action of the verb to scud.
    • The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous. - 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39:

Forms

scuddings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of scud