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scummer

scummer noun: an instrument for taking off scum. Also the alternative form of Scummer.

Noun (1)

scummer (plural scummers)

  1. An instrument for taking off scum.
  2. (derogatory) One who engages in scumming.
  3. (derogatory, slang) A scummy person; a scoundrel.
    • '[…] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.'2009 October 29, Martina Cole, Hard Girls: An unputdownable serial killer thriller, Headline, →ISBN
    • "As it was, three years was all I could do without committin' a crime on him." His face showed his disgust. "He was some kind of scummer. I'd see him hangin' round them guns, takin' the tips an' me knowin' I'd not see any of it, an' us strugglin' like we were."2013 April 1, Peter Webb, The Quarry, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN

Noun (2)

scummer

  1. Excrement, scumber.
    • I'd be wading in scummer if it wasn't for works like these. Except, of course, that nobody ever bothered to put such tunnels in the Lower City, so I do wade in scummer there.2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498
    • 'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.'2013, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow

Verb

scummer (third-person singular simple present scummers, present participle scummering, simple past and past participle scummered)

  1. To scumber (defecate).

Noun (3) capitalized: Scummer

Scummer (plural Scummers)

  1. (derogatory) someone connected with Southampton Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
    Synonyms:
    Saint

Also used as

scummer is also the alternative form of Scummer.

Synonyms of scummer

Forms of scummer

Noun
pluralscummers
pluralScummers
Verb
third-person singular presentscummers
present participlescummering
past participlescummered
pastscummered

Origin of scummer

From scum + -er.

A variant of scumber, phonologically simplified and influenced by scum.

Questions about scummer

What does scummer mean?
Scummer means an instrument for taking off scum.
What part of speech is scummer?
Scummer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of scummer?
The plural of scummer is scummers.

Words near scummer in the dictionary

  1. scumless
  2. scumlike
  3. scumlord
  4. scumlords
  5. scummed
  6. scummer
  7. scummered
  8. scummering
  9. scummers
  10. scummier
  11. scummiest

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