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scum
English
Alternative forms
- skum (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Dutch sch?me (“foam”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?maz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
scum (countable and uncountable, plural scums)
- (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
- (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen
- (derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
Synonyms
- (layer of impurities): dross, impurities
- (layer of impurities on molten metal): cinder, scoriae, slag
- (person considered reprehensible): bastard
Derived terms
- scumbag
- scummy
- scum of the earth
Translations
Verb
scum (third-person singular simple present scums, present participle scumming, simple past and past participle scummed)
- To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
- To remove (something) as scum.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- To become covered with scum.
- 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper, pp.321-322:
- Take the smallest Cucumbers you can get, and as free from Spots as possible, put them into a strong Salt and Water for nine or ten Days, or 'till they are quite Yellow, and stir them twice a Day at least, or they will scum over, and grow soft
- 1769, Elizabeth Raffald, The Experienced English House-keeper, pp.321-322:
- (obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
- (obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
- 1815, Rudolf Ackerman and Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics:
- A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution.
- 1815, Rudolf Ackerman and Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics:
- (video games, informal) To startscum or savescum.
Translations
Anagrams
- CMUs, MCUs, USMC, cums
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lather
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?.th'?, lä.th'?, IPA(key): /?læ.ð?(?)/, /?l??ð?(?)/
- (US) IPA(key): /?læð?/
- Rhymes: -æð?(r), -??ð?(r)
Etymology 1
From Middle English lather, from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”), from Proto-Germanic *lauþr? (“that which is used for washing, soap”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówh?trom (“that which is used for washing”), from *lewh?-, *lowh?- (“to wash, bathe”). Cognate with Swedish lödder (“lather, foam, froth, soap”), Icelandic löður (“foam, froth, a kind of niter used for soap”), Old Irish lóathar (“wash-basin”), Ancient Greek ??????? (loutrón, “a bath, wash-room”), Latin lav? (“I wash”), Albanian laj (“I wash”), Ancient Greek ???? (loú?). More at lye.
Noun
lather (countable and uncountable, plural lathers)
- (countable, uncountable) The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
- (countable, uncountable) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
- (countable) A state of agitation.
Derived terms
- in a lather
- lathery
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English *lethren, from Old English l?þrian, l?þrian, *l?eþrian (“to anoint, smear, lather”), from Old English l?aþor (“a kind of niter used for soap, soda”). See above.
Verb
lather (third-person singular simple present lathers, present participle lathering, simple past and past participle lathered)
- (transitive) To cover with lather.
- (transitive) To beat or whip.
- (intransitive) To form lather or froth, as a horse does when profusely sweating.
Derived terms
- lather up
Translations
Anagrams
- Hartel, Hartle, Thrale, halter, rathel, thaler
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