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scumblings

scumblings is the plural of scumbling.

Meaning of scumbling

Noun

scumbling (plural scumblings)

  1. 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

Questions about scumblings

What is scumblings the plural of?
Scumblings is the plural of scumbling.

Words near scumblings in the dictionary

  1. scumbitches
  2. scumble
  3. scumbled
  4. scumbles
  5. scumbling
  6. scumblings
  7. scumboard
  8. scumboards
  9. scumbreath
  10. scumbreaths
  11. scumbria

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scumblings (page history and authors); scumbling (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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