scumber
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ)
Etymology
Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).
Verb
scumber (third-person singular simple present scumbers, present participle scumbering, simple past and past participle scumbered)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scumber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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