Scud

Adjective

 * 1)  Naked.

Verb

 * 1)  To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
 * 2)  To run before a high wind with no sails set.
 * 3)  To hit.
 * 4)  To speed.
 * 5)  To skim.

Noun

 * 1) The act of scudding.
 * 2) Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
 * 3) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
 * But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight, from which beamed forth an angel's face [...].
 * 1) A gust of wind.
 * 2)  A scab on a wound.
 * 3)  Pornography.
 * 4)  Irn-Bru.
 * A bottle of Scud
 * 1) A Soviet-developed ballistic missile.

Thesaurus
Cloudcuckooland, alto-cumulus, alto-stratus, anvil cloud, banner cloud, billowy cloud, blast, blow, bolt, brash, breakers, burst, burst of rain, burst of speed, canter, cap cloud, career, cirro-cumulus, cirro-fillum, cirro-nebula, cirro-stratus, cirro-velum, cirrus, cirrus cloud, cirrus haze, cirrus stripe, cloud, cloud band, cloud bank, cloud drift, cloud mass, cloud street, cloudburst, cloudland, cloudling, cloudscape, cocktail, collar, cottony cloud, cumulo-cirro-stratus, cumulo-cirrus, cumulo-nimbus, cumulo-stratus, cumulus, cumulus cloud, curl cloud, dart, dash, dead run, deluge, dogtrot, downfall, downflow, downpour, drencher, drift, flank speed, flat-out speed, flaw, fleecy cloud, fling, float, flood, flurry, fly, foam, foot, forced draft, fractocumulus, froth, full gallop, gallop, ghost, glide, gushing rain, gust, hand gallop, haste, hasten, head, headlong rush, heavy rain, heavy right foot, hie, high fog, high lope, hump, hump it, hurry, hurtle, jog trot, lather, lope, mackerel sky, make haste, mammatocumulus, maximum speed, meringue, mousse, mushroom cloud, nimbus, nimbus cloud, offscum, open throttle, plash, plow the deep, plunge, post, pour, puff, race, rain cloud, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, ride, ride the sea, run, rush, sail, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scum, scurry, scuttle, sea foam, shoot, skedaddle, skim, slip, snail cloud, soaker, soaking rain, soapsuds, souffle, spate, speed, spindrift, spoondrift, spout, spray, sprint, spume, spurt, squall cloud, step on it, stinging, storm cloud, strato-cumulus, stratus, stratus cloud, suds, surf, tear, thundercloud, thunderhead, torrent of rain, trot, walk the waters, water carrier, waterspout, white water, wide-open speed, wind gust, woolpack

Etymology
Perhaps from skjóta:.

Alternative forms

 * skud

Noun

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 * Russian: порыв