scunging

Verb

scunge (third-person singular simple present scunges, present participle scunging or scungeing, simple past and past participle scunged)

1. To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.
   • “I was scunged. ... I hated myself, hated everything, felt useless and worthless, had no friends, no love, no career, no education, no parents and no tomorrows. It all added up to nothing.”2002, Dennis McDougal, Mary Murphy, Blood Cold: Fame, Sex, and Murder in Hollywood, page 79

   Synonyms:

   assoil, befoul, sully, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

2. To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.
   • Neither will ye scunge after the gentry like M′Quirkie, and keep your creed in your hand ready to swap it for ony ither that may happen to be mair profitable.1846, author not visible, The Disruption: A Scottish Tale of Recent Times, R. M. Walker (printer), Edinburgh, page 341

   Synonyms:

   creep, skulk, slive, hake, sneak, shug, slink, steal, tiptoe

3. To scrounge; to borrow.
   • The Australian Labor Party in Victoria had a very successful result. Members of the National Party are scunging around trying to win Ballarat!1980, Victorian Parliament, Parliamentary debates (Hansard), volume 353, page 1449

   Synonyms:

   blag, cadge, mooch, beg, bum, leech, mump, scrounge, sponge, tap

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