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語源

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.

発音

• IPA: /skad/, /skæd/
• 韻: -æd

名詞

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

   • 1928 February 18, Pennsylvania Farmer Consolidated with the Pennsylvania Stockman and Farmer, volume 97, number 7, page 224:

     it will surely rust, take on a loud of stains and pits, acquire a scad of dust.

   • 1966, United States Senate Labor and Public Welfare [committee], 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:

     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.)

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