Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dung, especially that of the fox.
- To defecate; dung: a hunting term applied especially to foxes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. Dung.
- intransitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To void excrement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
dung - verb to void excrement
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Examples
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Found fox scumber, under my pillow, makes for a shitty slumber.
Foxes | clusterflock 2009
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Found fox scumber, under my pillow, makes for a shitty slumber.
Foxes | clusterflock 2009
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Having then made shift to get up at noon, they pulled off their boots, and those that wanted to speak with a maid, alias piss, pissed; those that wanted to scumber, scumbered; and those that wanted to sneeze, sneezed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Having then made shift to get up at noon, they pulled off their boots, and those that wanted to speak with a maid, alias piss, pissed; those that wanted to scumber, scumbered; and those that wanted to sneeze, sneezed.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Having then made shift to get up at noon, they pulled off their boots, and those that wanted to speak with a maid, alias piss, pissed; those that wanted to scumber, scumbered; and those that wanted to sneeze, sneezed.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
chained_bear commented on the word scumber
"The dung of a dog or fox." (OED) It can also be a verb, "Of a dog or fox: To evacuate the fæces. Also jocularly of a person." See also the delightful verb bescumber, which doesn't mean quite the same thing.
May 6, 2008
kawy commented on the word scumber
The dung of the fox. —Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon, c. 1850
September 29, 2015