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scucca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
scucca, sceucca, sceocca, scocca, an; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§256; §401;
A devil, demon; in sing generally the devil, Satan, Beelzebub
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  • Wæs se scucca

    (Satan)

    him betwux. Tó ðæm cwæð Drihten: 'Hwanon cóme ðú?' Se sceocca andwyrde: 'Ic férde geond ðás eorþan,'

    • Homl. Th. ii. 446, 25-27
      • .

  • Se scucca,

    • 452, 13, 17
      • .

  • Se sceocca,

    • 448, 4
      • .

  • Gang ðú sceocca (sceucca, MS. A. ) on bæc

    vade Satanas,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 4, 10
      • .

  • Æfter ðæs sceoccan (scoccan. Thw.) éhtnysse,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 450, 3
      • .

  • Sceoccan

    Belzebulis,

    • Germ. 399, 267
      • .

  • Sceoccan betǽht tó flǽsces forwyrde,

    • R. Ben. 50, 1
      • .

  • Deóful ł scuccan

    Zabulun,

    • Hymn. Surt. 115, 15
      • .

  • Ða áwyrigedan sceoccan (scuccan),

    • Homl. Th. i. 68, 1
      • :
    • Wulfst. 249, 1
      • .

  • Þurh ðara scuccena lotwrencas,

    • Bt. 39, 6
      • ;
    • Fox 220, 14
      • .

  • Scucna englas,

    • Blickl. Homl. 189, 7
      • .

  • Ðæt hié leóda landgeweorc láþum beweredon scuccum and scinnum,

    • Beo. Th. 1882
      • ;
    • B. 939
      • .

  • Ongunnan heora bearn blótan feóndum, sceuccum onsæcgean

    immolaverunt filios suos et filias suas daemoniis,

    • Ps. Th. 105, 27
      • .
The word is found in the name of a place, Scuccanhláu,
  • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. 196, 1
    • .
Etymology
[
Þu scheomelese schucke (the reeve that condemned St. Margaret), Marh. 7, 26.
Þe laðe unwiht, þe hellene schucke, H. M. 41, 35.
Schenden þene sckucke (schucke), A. R. 316, 11.
Þe scucke wes bitweonen, Laym. 276.
Þu (the reeve before whom Juliana was brought) þat schucke art schucken (shuken, Bod. MS.) herien, Jul. 56, 2.
]
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v.  sceocca sceucca scocca.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “scucca.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27069.

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