Definition of Scummer

1. v. i. To scumber.

2. n. Excrement; scumber.

3. n. An instrument for taking off scum; a skimmer.

Definition of Scummer

1. Noun. (soccer pejorative) someone connected with Southampton Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc. ¹

2. Noun. An instrument for taking off scum ¹

3. Noun. excrement, scumber ¹

4. Noun. (UK football slang derogatory offensive) A supporter of (w Southampton F.C.). ¹

5. Verb. scumber ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scummer

1. one that scums [n -S] - See also: scums

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scummer

scumbered
scumbers
scumble
scumbled
scumbles
scumbling
scumblings
scumbria
scumbucket
scumbuckets
scumfish
scumless
scumlike
scummed
scummers
scummier
scummiest
scummily
scumminess
scumming
scummings
scummy
scums
scumsucker
scumsuckers
scumsucking
scumware
scuncheon

Literary usage of Scummer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Worrall's directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens [&c.]. (1876)
"The mechanism is slightly different from that applied to Stationary Boilers, in order to secure the proper working condition of the scummer during any ..."

2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"See Gifford, ia loco ; and Jamieson. It is, possibly, from scum. scummer, 8. The mutter evacuated by stool. Mossing. Pict., V, 1. ..."

3. The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane: With Practical Directions for by George Richardson Porter (1843)
"... always be sufficiently large to be raised by a scummer, it is enough if they are disunited, because then they will not escape nitration and subsidence. ..."

4. Papers on Mechanical and Physical Subjects by Osborne Reynolds, Arthur William Brightmore, William Henry Moorby (1901)
"In C the tide was 0162 foot, and the scummer was placed so that the mean tide when running was O'00S foot above the initial level of the sand ; this was not ..."

5. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"See scummer, yt/t Report Devon Provincialisms, 1886. 3. sb. A mess ; a soiling; a dirty, ... Mind and clean up arter 'ee, and not lef it all to a scummer. ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"The conditions in these experiments were the same as in Experiments I., Tanks С and D, except that the scummer in D was altered, until the mean tide level ..."

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