scummer
See also: Scummer
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Noun
scummer (plural scummers)
- An instrument for taking off scum.
- (UK, soccer, slang, derogatory, offensive) Alternative form of Scummer (“A supporter of Southampton F.C.”)
- (video games, derogatory) One who engages in scumming.
- (derogatory) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text
{{rfdef}}. A scummy person? One who scums i.e. skims?- 2009 October 29, Martina Cole, Hard Girls: An unputdownable serial killer thriller, Headline, →ISBN:
- ' […] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.'
- 2013 April 1, Peter Webb, The Quarry, Grosvenor House Publishing, →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 March 27, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow, eBook Partnership, →ISBN:
- 'You heard me you fucking scummer. Go on, piss off back where you came from!'
Etymology 2
Noun
scummer
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Excrement, scumber.
- 2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498:
- 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.
- 2013, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow:
- 'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.'
- 2014 November 25, Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: Collecting The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, and The Crimson Crown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:
- […] they'd moved him to a different prison - one that stank of scummer and blood and despair. He no longer dangled from the wall, but lay on a pile of filthy blankets on the stone floor. His wrists and ankles were still darbied, but the […]
- 2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498:
Verb
scummer (third-person singular simple present scummers, present participle scummering, simple past and past participle scummered)
- To scumber.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scummer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)