scutch grass


noun

Origin of scutch grass

First recorded in 1675–85

Words nearby scutch grass

Example sentences from the Web for scutch grass

  • Nurse: If they have, there is not so much of it in you as would redden a rib of scutch-grass.

    Three Wonder Plays |Lady I. A. Gregory
  • It was a moor at the time of the battle in 1485, overgrown with thistles and scutch-grass.

British Dictionary definitions for scutch grass

scutch grass

noun

another name for Bermuda grass, couch grass Sometimes shortened to: scutch

Word Origin for scutch grass

variant of couch grass