Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to scum
Participle: scummed
Gerund: scumming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | scum |
| you | scum |
| he;she;it | scums |
| we | scum |
| you | scum |
| they | scum |
Perfect
| I | have scummed |
| you | have scummed |
| he;she;it | has scummed |
| we | have scummed |
| you | have scummed |
| they | have scummed |
Past
| I | scummed |
| you | scummed |
| he;she;it | scummed |
| we | scummed |
| you | scummed |
| they | scummed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scummed |
| you | had scummed |
| he;she;it | had scummed |
| we | had scummed |
| you | had scummed |
| they | had scummed |
Future
| I | will scum |
| you | will scum |
| he;she;it | will scum |
| we | will scum |
| you | will scum |
| they | will scum |
Future Perfect
| I | will have scummed |
| you | will have scummed |
| he;she;it | will have scummed |
| we | will have scummed |
| you | will have scummed |
| they | will have scummed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | scum |
| you | scum |
| he;she;it | scum |
| we | scum |
| you | scum |
| they | scum |
Perfect
| I | have scummed |
| you | have scummed |
| he;she;it | have scummed |
| we | have scummed |
| you | have scummed |
| they | have scummed |
Imperfect
| I | scummed |
| you | scummed |
| he;she;it | scummed |
| we | scummed |
| you | scummed |
| they | scummed |
Pluperfect
| I | had scummed |
| you | had scummed |
| he;she;it | had scummed |
| we | had scummed |
| you | had scummed |
| they | had scummed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would scum |
| you | would scum |
| he;she;it | would scum |
| we | would scum |
| you | would scum |
| they | would scum |
Perfect
| I | would have scummed |
| you | would have scummed |
| he;she;it | would have scummed |
| we | would have scummed |
| you | would have scummed |
| they | would have scummed |
Imperative
| you | scum |
| we | Let's scum |
| you | scum |
Verbs conjugated like 'scum'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'scum'
scam,
scud,
scug,
scun,
scur,
scut,
skum,
slum,
soum,
stum,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English scum, scome, skum, skome, scumme, from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch schūme (“foam”), from Old Dutch *scūm, from Frankish *skūm, from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover, conceal”).
2. Cognate with Dutch schuim (“foam”), West Frisian skuum, German Schaum (“foam”), Danish and Swedish skum (“foam”). Compare also French écume (“scum”), Italian schiuma (“foam”), Saterland Frisian Skuum, Sicilian scuma (“foam”), Walloon schome (“scum, foam”), Lithuanian šamas (“catfish”) and skanus (“tasty”) from the same Germanic source. Related to skim. See: Wallon 'schome'.
Verbs referencing "scum"
German, old spelling
schäumen.
Sample Sentences
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Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great[…]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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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, pages 321–322:]
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SOo by Merlyns aduys ther were sente fore rydars to skumme the Countreye / & they mette with the fore rydars of the north / and made hem to telle whiche wey the hooste cam / and thenne they told it to Arthur / and by kyng Ban and Bors counceill they lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them there they shold ryde [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:]
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Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates. [1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:]
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A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution. [1815, Rudolf Ackerman, Frederic Shoberl, The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics:]