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scummy, a.|ˈskʌmɪ|
[f. scum n. + -y.]
1. Having the nature or appearance of scum.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 297 The skummie froathe is not mixed with the oyle. a1618Sylvester Job Triumphant iv. xli, Hee makes the deep sea like a pot to boyl, A pot of Oyntment (casting scummy Soyl). 1818Keats Endym. iii. 330 To breathe away as 'twere all scummy slime From off a crystal pool. 1839–52Bailey Festus 44 This fair earth..'Tis but the particoloured, scummy, dross Of the original element wherefrom The fiery worlds were framed. 1936A. Ransome Pigeon Post xxix. 312 ‘What'll it look like when we see it again?’.. ‘All scummy on the top... The pure gold'll be underneath.’ 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset xiv. 215 Under-exposure produces a weak, soft stencil, so that the image thickens-up in development and results in stencil breakdown and a scummy plate. 1979K. M. Peyton Marion's Angels ii. 29 At high-water springs the river came right up over the saltings..and sent scummy fingers up the garden path.
fig.a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1598) 414 These were the skummy remnant of those rebels. 1690C. Nesse Hist. & Myst. O. & N. Test. I. 140 The strength of his faith dashes down all the scummy bubbles of carnal reasonings.
2. Abounding in scum. Also fig.
1593Nashe Christ's T. 83 London, thou art..the Sea that sucks in all the scummy chanels of the Realme. 1727Bailey vol. II, Scummy, frothy, dreggy, &c. as a boiling Pot.
3. transf. and fig. Filthy, dirty; despicable, disreputable. Also Comb. orig. and chiefly U.S. colloq.
1932[see pig n.1 5]. 1952B. Malamud Natural 67, I don't like the scummy tricks you play on people. 1973E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 78 Hey, you white scummy-lookin' bourgeois bitch, take me to dinner? 1977R. E. Harrington Quintain xvii. 202 Meeting scummy little men at..squalid Parisian restaurants. 1979Maledicta III. 133 The scummy millionaire Marxist profs I know don't spend one red penny of their own: Let the workers & peasants pay! |