Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scumber

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scum-ber
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Dung; excrement.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

verb

Example Sentences

"[…]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."

Etymology

Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: escumbrier

Usage

Inflected Forms

scumbers (plural) scumbers (present, singular) scumbering (participle, present) scumbered (participle, past) scumbered (past)

Rhymes With

number richardson number lumber slumber lumbar umber cumber encumber clumber zeisel number subumber

Questions

What does scumber mean?: Dung; excrement.
Where does scumber come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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