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scomber

scomber is the alternative form of scumber.

Meaning of scumber

Noun

scumber (countable and uncountable, plural scumbers)

  1. (usually, dog or fox) Dung; excrement.
    • […]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.1848, Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877, History of the Jesuits, →OCLC

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Noun

scomber (plural scombers)

  1. A fish of the genus Scomber.
    • […] the familiar name by which all scombers are known at Montpelier being the peis d’avril, or April fish. […] All times and tongues have agreed to call the first of these scombers by some name allusive to the warlike weapon carried in his mouth—viz., a sword, several feet in length, finely...1853 March, “The Last of the Scombers”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XLVII, number CCLXXIX, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], pages 260–262
    • […] large carongues and scombers are found in the Canarian seas, and the similarity of several species is most remarkable.1871, E[ugène] Pégot-Ogier, translated by Frances Locock, “General Scientific Observations”, in The Fortunate Isles; or, The Archipelago of the Canaries. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley and...

Forms of scomber

Verb
third-person singular presentscombers
present participlescombering
past participlescombered
pastscombered
Noun
pluralscombers

Origin of scomber

Borrowed from Latin scomber.

Questions about scomber

What does scomber mean?
Scomber means a fish of the genus Scomber.
What is scomber the alternative form of?
Scomber is the alternative form of scumber.
What part of speech is scomber?
Scomber is a noun.
What is the plural of scomber?
The plural of scomber is scombers.

Words near scomber in the dictionary

  1. scolytine
  2. scolytines
  3. scolytoid
  4. scolytoids
  5. Scoma
  6. scomber
  7. scombered
  8. scomberesocid
  9. scomberesocids
  10. scombering
  11. scomberoid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scomber (page history and authors); scumber (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.

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