Lexicographical Neighbors of Scumfish
Literary usage of Scumfish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lakeland Words: A Collection of Dialect Words and Phrases, as Used in by B. Kirkby (1898)
"Ah was near scumfish't as neea matter i' yon whol. SCREES—Rough stoney ground on
a mountain side, such as Red Screes, on the west side of Kirkstone. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"To these Kerrs is applied a very characteristic line to be immediately quoted in
its true position : They scumfish them oot wi' the ..."
3. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"Katherine, daughter to George Errington, taylor, scumfish d in a pan of water."—St.
Nicholas' Church Boohs, Newcastle, p. 18. ..."
4. Lincolnshire and the Danes by George Sidney Streatfeild (1884)
"scumfish = to overpower (Brogden). In this form one would have little hesitation
in putting it down for a corruption of discomfit; but the word appears in ..."
5. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, & Affinity to Other by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"scumfish, to smother, to suffocate with smoke. Wood embers, the snuffing of a
candle, sulphur, &c., have scumfish- ing effluvia in close rooms. ..."
6. Desultory Notes on Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary by James B. Montogomerie- Fleming (1899)
"Scunner and scumfish are two Scotch words illustrative of the benefit of maintaining
the Scotch language, ... He took some sort of scumfish at me " implies ..."
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