Scummer

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

An instrument for taking off scum..

Definitions by Sense

1. An instrument for taking off scum.
2. (UK, soccer, slang, derogatory, offensive) Alternative form of Scummer (“A supporter of Southampton F.C.”)
3. (video games, derogatory) One who engages in scumming.
4. (slang, derogatory) A scummy person; a scoundrel.
5. Excrement, scumber.
6. To scumber.

Example Sentences

'[…] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.'

"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."

'You heard me you fucking scummer. Go on, piss off back where you came from!'

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.

'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.'

[…] 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[…]

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• scummers
• scummering
• scummered

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