Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also scutt, skut) the female genitals, the pubic hair; in cit. 1702 also the male genitals.

c.1597		Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor V v: My doe with the black scut!
1660		‘Hunting of the Hare’ Pepys Ballads (1987) IV 270: For Gamesters that do play at Rut, And love the sport, I give my Skut.
1675		T. Duffet Psyche Debauch’d Epilogue: She fears no snarling Fops, though ev’ry foot, Like eager Lovers they will put her to’t, Still hunting close, and snatching at her Scut.
1685		N. Thompson Loyal Songs 198: By turns the saints turn’d up their Scuts / Each jealous of the others bliss.
1694		Motteux (trans.) ‘Epistles to Two Women’ Rabelais (1927) II 709: Thou mak’st each trull turn up her filthy scut.
1702		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 259: Thirty pair of haunches, both bucks and does, have been wagging their scuts at one another within the compass of one evening.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy V 108: Come in, he says, you silly Slut, [...] I’ll lay the Itching of your Scut.
1729		Life of Thomas Neaves 31: Those Buttocking Frows, that for a Lie buxum, a Hog, or half a Slat, this is six-pence, a Shilling, or half a Crown, shall turn up their Scut to every Porter, Link-boy, Tinker, or Carman.
1730		‘Gee Ho, Dobin’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 203: I rumpl’d her Feathers, and tickl’d her scutt, / And play’d the round Rubbers at two-handed Put.
1762		Bridges Homer Travestie (1764) I 107: Now night came on, with sable foot, / When Jove seiz’d Juno by the scut. [Ibid.] 152: Now, by fair Helen’s scut, young fry, / I shall be with you by and by.
1770		‘The Jolly Waggoner’ Fond Mother’s Garland 5: Still I kept driving, for Driving’s my Trade, / I ruffl’d her Feathers, and trickl’d her Scut.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1798		‘Toy’ in Hilaria 95: ‘I’ll scorch your nasty scuts, / Throw p—s in both your faces’.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. the buttocks, the posterior.

1664		C. Cotton Virgil Travestie (1765) Bk I 58: And likewise there was finely put, / A Cushion underneath her Scut.
1879		‘Into the Bargain’ Pearl 5 Nov. 26: ‘Now,’ said the cunning little slut, / ‘Just add a sixpence each; / And you shall see my very scut! / I’ll let you see my breech.’.
1914		Bulletin (Sydney) 20 Aug. 24/4: ‘Give the bye back his pound, yeh mane shnake iv the worrld [...] ’r I’ll land yeh a kick in the scut’ he sez.
1925		G.H. Mullin Adventures of a Scholar Tramp 264: I would n’t take any liberties with a whale’s scut.

3. (UK juv.) a promiscuous girl, beneath or just at the age of consent.

1996		(con. 1970) G. Moxley Danti-Dan in McGuinness Dazzling Dark (1996) II vi: You filthy little scut you.
1996		(con. 1950s) C. Kenneally Maura’s Boy 72: Ye saucy scut.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 scut n. a young slut: promiscuous 14–16 year old girls.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 13: [T]he scut in the back corner of the pub [...] the burnt-out girl on the quay.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 324: ‘Have you nothing else to be doing? Have you no scuts to torment?’ [ibid.] 325: Plenty of scuts [...] in short sleeves, showing off their tattoos. Territorial as crows, noising and scratching and lepping around.