Meaning & use
Skutch
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To strike or beat someone lightly, especially as a scolding blow; a dialectal variant found chiefly in Irish and Caribbean English.
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His granny threatened to skutch him if he tracked mud through the kitchen again.
The older boys would skutch anyone who broke the rules of the game.
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Related to the standard word 'scutch,' which refers to beating flax or cotton fibers to separate them from woody waste.
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