Etymology

scumber

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Today it means: Dung; excrement. Full definition →

Old French escumbrier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromescumbrier“to disencumber”
  2. English todayscumber

Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.