scad

Unknown, early 17th century, perhaps related to shad. In sense “large amount”, US 1869, of unknown origin, presumably from large shoals/schools of the fish.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /skad/, /skæd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æd

scad (plural scads or scad)

1. Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
2. (chiefly in the plural, informal, Canada, US) A large number or quantity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:lot

   scads of money

   • 1966, United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare, Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)

     You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.

   • 2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine‎^[1]:

     Galleries everywhere are awash in these brand-name reductivist canvases, […] , mimicking a set of preapproved influences. (It’s also a global presence: I saw scads of it in Berlin a few weeks back, and art fairs are inundated.)

• African scad (Trachurus delagoa)
• Arabian scad (Trachurus indicus)
• banded scad (Alepes kleinii)
• big-eyed scad, big eyed scad, bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus)
• blackfin scad (Alepes melanoptera)
• common scad (Trachurus trachurus)
• cordyla scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
• crozet scad (Trachurus longimanus))
• false scad (Caranx rhonchus)
• finny scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
• goggle-eye scad, goggle eye scad (Alepes kleinii)
• golden scad (Alepes kleinii)
• hardtail scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
• mackerel scad (Decapterus macarellus)
• razorbelly scad (Alepes kleinii)
• rough scad (Trachurus lathami)
• round scad (Decapterus punctatus)
• shrimp scad (Alepes djedaba)
• spotfin scad (Caranx rhonchus)
• torpedo scad (Megalaspis cordyla)
• yellowstripe scad (Selaroides leptolepis)
• yellowtail scad (Atule mate)

• ACDs, ADCs, ADS-C, ADSC, DACs, SACD, SADC, cads

• scadu

From Vulgar Latin *excadeō, from Latin ex- + cadō. Compare Daco-Romanian scădea, scad.

scad first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative scadi or scade, past participle scãdzutã)

1. to decrease, diminish, reduce
2. to decline
3. to subtract

• scãdeari/scãdeare
• scãderi
• scãdzut
• scãdzui
• cad

• sclãghescu

scad

1. inflection of scădea:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

scad

1. scald