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Definition of Scumber
1. v. i. To void excrement.
2. n. Dung.
Definition of Scumber
1. Noun. dung ¹
2. Verb. to void excrement ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scumber
1. to defecate (a dog) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scumber
Literary usage of Scumber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... or scumber. To ease the body by evacuation. My silver-scaled skulls about my
streams do sweep ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"This effect is supposed to be produced by the efficacy of the Epsom waters.
In some editions printed scumber. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"See Ex- and Cure. Der. scour-er. this solution, here first proposed, is the right
one. Wedgwood connects it with scumber or ..."
4. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"... J. Bemerkungen zu Herrn KP Allie' Arbeit: „The skull and the cranial and first
spinal musclée and nerves in Scomber scumber. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"scumber. To dung. Л hunting term, applied properly to foxes. It is frequently
written »cummer, as in Florio, p. 72. But he that gaines the glory here, ..."
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