Some disadvantages of the Engineering Cost Estimating method include: [2] 1  It can be expensive to implement and it is time consuming. 2  It is not flexible enough to answer what-if questions. 3  New estimates must be built for each alternative.  The product specification must be well known and stable.
grutch (v.) c. 1200, grucchen, to murmur, complain, find fault with, be angry, from Old French grouchier, grocier to murmur, to grumble, of unknown origin, perhaps from Germanic, probably ultimately imitative. Meaning to begrudge is c. 1400. Compare gruccild (early 13c.) woman who complains, from grutch + suffix of
In certain parts of Ireland the word scut was used to tell off their children. Like feck is the softer version of fuck. Scut would have been used in this way as it was the softer version of shite. Being a lad from the West of Ireland this word was bandied about in my area quite a bit. Scut would have been shortened from scutter which as any farmer will tell you is not a pretty sight out the backside of an afflicted cow (terribly bad liquid diarrhoea). So when your ma was saying 'you're some scut,' 'you little scut,' or 'come here you scut ya,' she was calling you a shit or a shite but in the nice clean way.