scad
noun/skad/ · /skæd/
Etymology 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.
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Any of several fish, of the family Carangidae, from the western Atlantic.
- scads of money
- it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust.1928 February 18, Pennsylvania Farmer Consolidated with the Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer, volume 97, number 7, page 224:
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- You take temporary employment for office employees and there are a whole scad of people doing that and nothing else.1966, United States Senate Labor and Public Welfare [committee], Manpower Services Act of 1966 and Employment Service Act of... (page 295)
- 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.)2014 June 17, Jerry Saltz, “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?”, in New York Magazine:
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African scad, Arabian scad, banded scad, big-eyed scad, big eyed scad, bigeye scad, blackfin scad, common scad, cordyla scad, crozet scad), false scad, finny scad, goggle-eye scad, goggle eye scad, golden scad, hardtail scad, mackerel scad, razorbelly scad, rough scad, round scad, shrimp scad, spotfin scad, torpedo scad, yellowstripe scad, yellowtail scad