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Synonyms for scads
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : skad |
| Phonetic Transcription : skæd |
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Définition of scads
Origin :- "large amounts," 1869, American English, earlier "dollar" (1855, usually in plural), of uncertain origin. Unknown connection to scad, the fish, which were "often very abundant and occasionally seen in enormous shoals":
- In July, 1834, as Mr. Yarrell informs us, most extraordinary shoals passed up the channel along the coast of Glamorganshire; their passage occupied a week, and they were evidently in pursuit of the fry of the herring. The water appeared one dark mass of fish, and they were caught by cart-loads, and might even be baled out of the water by the hands alone. ["British Fish and Fisheries," 1849]
- noun large quantity,
- She'll ne'er backward linger, this land of our dads, for she is a dinger at nailing the scads.
- Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason
- You'll find a buckskin purse, with some scads in it, in the bag.
- Extract from : « Trent's Trust and Other Stories » by Bret Harte
- One day they were out and caught six mackerel and six scads.
- Extract from : « Cornish Saints and Sinners » by J. Henry Harris
- Now, scads are of small value, and yet Dick got them all, and Hugh all the mackerel.
- Extract from : « Cornish Saints and Sinners » by J. Henry Harris
- Oh, heaps of them—scores—dead oodles and scads of 'em, as we girls say.
- Extract from : « Recollections of a Varied Life » by George Cary Eggleston
- Thet gurl's not only white—she's got money, scads ov it, and is a good looker.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Own » by Randall Parrish
- Of course we always got scads of these too, but this was a very normal thing.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- Promoters grovel at his feet, and offer heaps of scads, if he will condescend to meet some other bruising lads.
- Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason
- He jist shoved them scads what hed been given him careless-like down inter his coat pocket, an' faced Mister Manager.
- Extract from : « Beth Norvell » by Randall Parrish
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