scummer

plural scummers

1. An instrument for taking off scum.
2. UKalternativederogatoryoffensiveslangball gamesAlternative form of Scummer (“A supporter of Southampton F.C.”)
3. derogatoryvideo gamesOne who engages in scumming.
4. derogatoryslangA scummy person; a scoundrel.

   'You heard me you fucking scummer. Go on, piss off back where you came from!'

   2013 March 27, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow, eBook Partnership, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   '[…] fucking scummer like him having precedence over me? That's unheard of.'

   2009 October 29, Martina Cole, Hard Girls: An unputdownable serial killer thriller, Headline, →ISBN

   "As it was, three years was all I could do without committin' a crime on him." His face showed his disgust. "He was some kind of scummer. I'd see him hangin' round them guns, takin' the tips an' me knowin' I'd not see any of it, an' us strugglin' like we were."

   2013 April 1, Peter Webb, The Quarry, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN

1. Excrement, scumber.

   'I ain't setting foot in that place, not ever. It smells of scummer.'

   2013, Dougie Brimson, Wings of a Sparrow

   2 more examples

   I'd be wading in scummer if it wasn't for works like these. Except, of course, that nobody ever bothered to put such tunnels in the Lower City, so I do wade in scummer there.

   2009, Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound: The Legend of Beka Cooper #2, page 498

   […] they'd moved him to a different prison - one that stank of scummer and blood and despair. He no longer dangled from the wall, but lay on a pile of filthy blankets on the stone floor. His wrists and ankles were still darbied, but the[…]

   2014 November 25, Cinda Williams Chima, The Seven Realms: The Complete Series: Collecting The Demon King, The Exiled Queen, The Gray Wolf Throne, and The Crimson Crown, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, →ISBN

present singular third person scummers · participle present scummering · participle past scummered · past scummered

1. To scumber (defecate).

plural Scummers

1. derogatoryball gamessomeone connected with Southampton Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

   Synonyms: Saint