Meaning & use
Scug
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A dated informal British term for a person, especially a schoolboy, regarded with contempt or as socially inferior.
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In the old boarding-school novel, the bullies mocked the younger boys as scugs.
He was dismissed as a mere scug by the older students at the club.
A note on using this word
This is a dated piece of British schoolboy slang, now rarely used outside older literature.
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