What does scumber mean?
Scumber means (usually of a person, dog or fox) Dung; excrement..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(usually of a person, dog or fox) Dung; excrement..
[…]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.
A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be. To cleanse it of its scumber;
[…] the Scumber of the Fox, the Spraints of the Otter[…]
Let’s see, if by your scumber, you are fox!
Someone shouts something and he turns and shouts back, ‘Just going for a scumber, all right? Back in a moment.
But he that gaines the glory here Muſt ſcumber furtheſt, ſhite moſt clear.
Beware of fire when you ſcumber, Though to ſh-- [shit] fire were a wonder,
[…]and old Nick turn me into Bumfodder, if this did not make me ſo hide-bound and coſtive; that for four or five Days I hardly ſcumber'd one poor Butt of Sir-reverance and that too was full as dry and hard, I protest
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Scumber means (usually of a person, dog or fox) Dung; excrement..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.
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