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scudder

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for scudder.

Editorial note

Lots of people have written about what alcoholism is like; have you ever read Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels?

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of scudder gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

One who, or that which, scuds.

noun

A kind of mole cricket, the fossor.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for scudder.

noun

A surname.

noun

One who, or that which, scuds.

noun

A kind of mole cricket, the fossor.

Example sentences

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Lots of people have written about what alcoholism is like; have you ever read Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels?

2

So Scudder naturally asked what he should do next, and Agassiz said, Look at your fish.

3

Then Scudder had a brainstorm and he announced it to Agassiz the next morning: Paired organs, the same on both sides.

4

Heinlein's Future History saw Nehemiah Scudder win the last American elections in 2012.

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I was about to say this feels like a Jeffrey Scudder piece.

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Then I hit the about, and it IS a Jeffrey Scudder piece.

Quote examples

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> In an interview, Scudder, 51, cast his ordeal as a struggle against “mindless” bureaucracy...

2

Samuel Scudder, who later became a famous entomologist and expert on grasshoppers, left us the best account of the “ordeal with the fish.” After several days, he still could not see whatever it was Agassiz wanted him to see.

3

"A meme virus almost as crazy as the one in Snow Crash swept an insane man to the presidency of the United State" How about this earlier meme virus: Heinlein's "If This Goes On—" (1940) concerns a televangelist named Nehemiah Scudder who rides a populist, racist wave of support to the Presidency in 2012, then becomes dictator.

Proper noun examples

1

My grandmother made those in her Sunbeam toaster before loading them with room-temperature butter and Laura Scudder's smooth peanut butter.

2

I'm a big fan of digitpain (Jeffrey Scudder) and it is great to see him get airtime here.

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The big discovery here, that was done by Scudder, was to have found places where that magnetic field connects with the Earth's magnetic field, called reconnection points.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use scudder in a sentence?

Lots of people have written about what alcoholism is like; have you ever read Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder novels?

What does scudder mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is scudder?

scudder is commonly used as noun.