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scult
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The free version of the OED won't tell me:Votanic wrote:sculp
Duk, what does scult mean?
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/scult_n
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Anyway, since you went with "sculp", I can now go with:Earliest known use
mid 1500s
The earliest known use of the noun scult is in the mid 1500s.
OED's only evidence for scult is from 1548, in Hall's Vnion.
Sculpt
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire
― Voltaire
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So I guess even one-off typos and misspellings get into the OED, ...if they happened in the 16th Century.Dukasaur wrote:OED's only evidence for scult is from 1548, in Hall's Vnion.
Anyway, now the only way to get out of sculpt, is to put the game into reverse and go back to...
sculp
Suggestions: scull, scalp, maybe even culp?
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