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scummer en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

Etymology

From scum + -er.

Meanings

  1. An instrument for taking off scum.
  2. (UK, alt-of, alternative, derogatory, offensive, slang) Alternative form of Scummer (“A supporter of Southampton F.C.”)
    alt of Scummer
  3. (derogatory) One who engages in scumming.
  4. (derogatory, slang) A scummy person; a scoundrel.
    • "As it was, three years was all I could do without committin' a crime on him." His face showed his disgust. "He was some kind of scummer. I'd see him hangin' round them guns, takin' the tips an' me knowin' I'd not see any of it, an' us strugglin' like we were." 2013 April 1, Peter Webb, The Quarry, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:
    • 'You heard me you fucking scummer. Go on, piss off back where you came from!' 2013 March 27, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
    • '[…] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.' 2009 October 29, Martina Cole, Hard Girls: An unputdownable serial killer thriller, Headline, →ISBN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
scummers Number=Plur lexicographic

scummer en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

A variant of scumber, phonologically simplified and influenced by scum.

Meanings

  1. Excrement, scumber.
    • 'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.' 2013, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow:
    • […] they'd moved him to a different prison - one that stank of scummer and blood and despair. He no longer dangled from the wall, but lay on a pile of filthy blankets on the stone floor. His wrists and ankles were still darbied, but the[…] 2014 November 25, Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: Collecting The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, and The Crimson Crown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
    • I'd be wading in scummer if it wasn't for works like these. Except, of course, that nobody ever bothered to put such tunnels in the Lower City, so I do wade in scummer there. 2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498:

scummer en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

Etymology

A variant of scumber, phonologically simplified and influenced by scum.

Meanings

  1. To scumber (defecate).

Forms

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scummered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scummered Tense=Past lexicographic
scummering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scummers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic