scumbling
scumbling is the present participle and gerund of scumble.
Meaning of scumble
Verb
scumble (third-person singular simple present scumbles, present participle scumbling, simple past and past participle scumbled)
- To apply an opaque glaze to an area of a painting to make it softer or duller.
- manure [...] dead leaves [...] and the odd unstomachable meal thrown or vomited there by this or that sensitive epicurean—all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable topsoil in which anything could grow1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
- To apply a painted pattern to the finish of a piece of furniture to simulate the woodgrain of another timber, as for example to give pine an appearance of oak.
- scumbled pine
Noun
scumbling (plural scumblings)
- An application of scumbling; an opaque glaze.
- On Martha's Vineyard, Summer 1962 is a canvasful of brushstrokes and scumblings, some wet into wet, some dry-brushed, with accidental runs of thinned paint allowed to remain.2003, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America - Volume 91, page 121
Forms of scumbling
| plural | scumblings |
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Questions about scumbling
- What does scumbling mean?
- Scumbling means an application of scumbling; an opaque glaze.
- What is scumbling the present participle and gerund of?
- Scumbling is the present participle and gerund of scumble.
- What part of speech is scumbling?
- Scumbling is a noun.
- What is the plural of scumbling?
- The plural of scumbling is scumblings.
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