a.1602, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, V, 4, 19
Mrs. Ford. Sir John ! art thou there, my deer ? my male deer ?
Falstaff. My doe with the black scut!
a.1968, Keith Roberts, "The Lady Margaret", in Modern Classics of Science Fiction, ed. Gardner R. Dozois, 1993, page 233
"So ... so she show you her pretty li'l scut, he? ...."
1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
One of the sisters backed up to the fire and hiked up the tail of her dress and bent over and thrust out her scut to it and stared at Inman with a look of glazed pleasure in her blue eyes.
1999, Jonathan Kellerman, Billy Straight, page 112
"Let's devote mornings to the scut, do real work in the afternoon. ...."
2001, Catherine Miles Wallace, Motherhood in the Balance: Children, Career, Me, and God, page 163
And the scut of weeding or washing clothes or waiting in the dentist's waiting room or the soccer field parking lot is actually far less brutalizing than the scut of grading freshman essays ....
2003, Virginia G. Salazar, Gone: A Sci Fi about Cloning, page 144
"What if you were called a scut puppy?' "When I first started I was one. A scut puppy is usually a medical student or a nurse who does menial tasks.