SCUTT. I have met with this name only in the town and neighbourhood of Brighton. It is a probable corruption of Scott. A Lancashire correspondent, however, reminds me that scut is a provincialism of extensive use for the tail of ahare or rabbit; sometimes the hare itself is so called. Halliwell. A poacher near Preston went b}' that name, because he ordinarily wore a hare's tail, for bravado, in his hat. Such sobriquets have often superseded other names, and become hereditary surnames. H.R. Scut.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.