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scad

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Scrabble points
7
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8
Letters
4
Pronunciation
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/skad/ · /skæd/

Definition of scad

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
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noun

  1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
  2. (Canada, US, in-plural, informal)A large number or quantity.
    “scads of money”
    “it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust.”
    “You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.”
    “Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […], mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)”

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Etymology

Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.

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