Word.ws English Dictionary

scammish

scammish adjective: awkward; rough; untidy.

Adjective

scammish (comparative more scammish, superlative most scammish)

  1. (dialectal) awkward; rough; untidy
  2. Characteristic of a scam; fraudulent; sketchy

Forms of scammish

comparativemore scammish
superlativemost scammish

Origin of scammish

From scam + -ish. Compare shammish.

Questions about scammish

What does scammish mean?
Scammish means awkward; rough; untidy.
What part of speech is scammish?
Scammish is an adjective.

Words near scammish in the dictionary

  1. scammers
  2. scammier
  3. scammiest
  4. scamminess
  5. scamming
  6. scammish
  7. scammoniate
  8. scammonic acid
  9. scammonic acids
  10. scammonies
  11. scammonin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scammish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scammish.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scammish. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.