scudding

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of scud

noun

1. The action of the verb to scud.
   The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous. 1845, Dublin University Magazine, volume 25, page 39

adj

1. That scuds or scud.
   Three times the Mexican gegenpress drew a scampering counterattack, whirring in on goal only to be foiled by a scudding last-ditch tackle or a last pass just awry. Germany were there for the taking, cut open with extraordinary relish by the Mexico attack. 17 June 2018, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-08-05
   all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades (10) 1833, Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses