Etymology question (non-spanking)

Cal, don't know if this helps any but the character Festus (played by Ken Curtis) in Gunsmoke uses the term "scutter" frequently when talking to his relatives from hill country. They are always calling each other scutters.

Of course, the character Festus is supposed to have come from the hill country.

For a good example check out the episode titled "Sweet Billy".

To me some of the most entertaining episodes of Gunsmoke are when Festus' relatives come to Dodge. The antics these folks get up to is fairly reminiscent of the Three Stooges.

I'd heard it as meaning more like tedious or boring rather than dirty, but a quick glance at the dictionary shows that all are correct:

Scut Work (noun) : trivial, unrewarding, menial, dirty, tedious, unfulfilling chores.



Possibly, either law breakers or just "low class," like the common insult in the South for people living in a double-wide is "Trailer Park Trash."

With regard to 'hull' it's used in my neck of the woods to mean the outer casing of peas or beans, and is used as a noun or a verb in which case it means to remove the peas from their pods though if one ever put peas back in their pods I expect the same word could be used.
Your father might have been using hull metaphorically to mean your skin, hence to stuff yourself with food.