scomm
scomm noun: an idiot: a buffoon.
Noun
scomm (plural scomms)
- An idiot: a buffoon.
- If the Wife was heartily angry before, This Scomm made her Stark Mad1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC
- A flout; a jeer, joke; a gibe; a taunt.
- His vain ostentation is worthily scoffed with [the] scomme of the orator.1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels
Forms of scomm
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Origin of scomm
Latin scomma (“a taunt, jeer, scoff”), from Ancient Greek σκῶμμα (skômma, “jest, gibe”).
Questions about scomm
- What does scomm mean?
- Scomm means an idiot: a buffoon.
- What part of speech is scomm?
- Scomm is a noun.
- What is the plural of scomm?
- The plural of scomm is scomms.
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