Scum

Definition: Scum

Scum

Noun

1. Worthless people.

2. A film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid.

Date "scum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Scum \Scum\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Scummed; Scumming.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of scum, signifies disappointment will be experienced by you over social defeats. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Environment	A mass of solid matter that floats on the surface of water. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Streaks of bubbles often accompanied by discoloration of the glass, drawn into arcs between the meshes. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	Slag, dross, or oxidation appearing on the top surface of ingots during pouring. Source: European Union. (references)
	Non metallic inclusions which are usually associated with blowholes within the inclusions as well as in the mass of the casting. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. Impure or extraneous matter that rises or collects at the surface of liquids, as vegetation on stagnant water, or dross on a bath of molten metal. Sometimes incorrectly used for the word froth in flotation b. A surface deposit sometimes formed on clay building bricks. The deposit may be of soluble salts present in the clay and carried to the surface of the bricks by water as it escapes during drying; it is then known as dryer scum. The deposit may also be formed during kiln firing, either from soluble salts in the clay or by reaction between the sulfur gases in the kiln atmosphere and minerals in the clay bricks; it is then known as kiln scum. Cf.: efflorescence c. Undissolved batch constituents floating as a layer above the molten glass in a pot or tank furnace d. Areas of poor gloss on a vitreous enamel; the fault may be due to action of furnace gases, to a nonuniform firing temperature, or to a film clay arising from faulty enamel suspension e. The "clouds" appearing around decalcomania formed by varnish residue f. A surface defect appearing as dull patches on otherwise bright surfacesof glazes, glass, or porcelain enamel. (references)
Slang in 1811	SCUM. The riff-raff, tag-rag, and bob-tail, or lowest order of people. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Scum

Synonym: trash (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Bad Man	Blackguard, polisson, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion; cullion, mean wretch, varlet, kern, ame-de-boue, drole; cur, dog, hound, whelp, mongrel; lown, loon, runnion, outcast, vagabond; rogue; (knave); ronian; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo.
Commonalty	Mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; foex populi; trash; profanum vulgus, ignobile vulgus; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.
Uncleanness	Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth.
	Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar.
Unimportance	Trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras, frippery; " leather or prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse; (inutility); scum; (dirt).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Scum

English words defined with "scum": calcium octadecanoate, calcium stearate, conferva, Cream of lime, Cremor ♦ Despumate, Despumation, Despume, dross ♦ genus Synchytrium ♦ Offscum ♦ Paramylum, pond-scum parasite ♦ Sandiver, scoria, Scummed, Scummer, Scumming, scummy, Skrim, Skun, slag, Synchytrium. (references)

Specialty definitions using "scum": BREWES, BROWES ♦ Gueux ♦ potette ♦ REMELTER ♦ SACHARUM OFFICINALE, slag blanket, STARCHMAKER. (references)

Etymologies containing "scum": Offscum. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies (The Godfather; writing credit: Francis Coppola and Mario Puzo. Based on the novel by Mario Puzo.) Look, I'm doing a Scum Angel (Finding Nemo; writing credit: Andrew Stanton) At birth, I was cast into a flaming pit of scum forgotten by God. (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz) As long as there's injustice in the world, as long as scum like you is walking well, rolling the streets I'll be around (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Thank you, sir. All right, you scum, you vermin - (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)
Lyrics	Against the worst scum of the universe ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)
Clever	Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money) (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Scum of the Earth (1974) Attention Scum (2001) Scum (1979) They Eat Scum (1979) Scum (1977)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Scum (reference) Scum & Other Tales (reference) Scum Manifesto (reference) Star Wars Scum and Villainy Calendar 2003 (reference) Transmetropolitan: The New Scum (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Defilers/The Scum of the Earth (reference) Gwar: Tour De Scum (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Go Out in a Scum Dream (reference) Scum (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	BLACK & DECKER Scum Buster Replacement Pads (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Oil scum one year after the spill on Prince William Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley	We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The "dangerous class," the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	A fellow had once seen a big rat jump into the scum.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Belarus	There has been no satisfactory resolution of the September 1999 disappearance of 13th Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Viktor Gonchar and his local business associate Anatoliy Krasovsky, which occurred after Lukashenka, in a meeting broadcast on state television, ordered the chiefs of his security services to crack down on "opposition scum." Gonchar was a high profile antiregime politician and Krasovsky was considered an active fundraiser for the opposition. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Scum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Scum" is used about 572 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.83%	571	11,044
Noun (proper)	0.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	572	N/A

Expressions using "scum": green scum ♦ ingot scum ♦ pond scum ♦ remove the scum from ♦ scum bag ♦ scum of the society ♦ surface scum ♦ the scum ♦ the scum of the earth. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "scum": scum-bashing, scum-boy, scum-covered, scum-hunting, Scum-spurs, scum-thief.
	Ending with "scum": anti-scum, newcastle-scum, rapist-gaybashing-scum, soap-scum.
	Containing "scum": pond-scum parasite, yuppie-scum-sucking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "scum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkumë (fluff, foam, froth, skim, spume, yeast), zhul (grime, slime), zgjyrë (cinder, clinker, dross, grime, rust, slag), llum (dregs, dross, grounds, Lees, ooze, raff, ragtag, riffraff, scab, scut, sludge, tails, vermin, wash). (various references)

Arabic		‏وسخ (bedraggle, befoul, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish), ‏غثاء, ‏حثالة المجتمع (sweepings), ‏زبد (bubble, churn, cream, foam, froth, lather, spume), ‏رغوة (foam, froth, head, spume, surf, work, yeast), ‏دنس (defile, desecrate, grubby, impure, ordure, pollute, pollution, profane, profanity, soil, sullying, violate). (various references)

Bulgarian		отрепка (doormat, jetsam, rag, sewer rat, wretch, yellow dog), отделям нечиста пяна, обгар (sinter), нечиста пяна, препенвам, пеня се (bubble, churn, cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, froth up, fume, lather, spume), измет (offscourings, ragtag, riffraff, sweepings, tag-rag). (various references)

Chinese		浮渣 (Dross, scummy). (various references)

Czech		pìna (foam, froth, lather, skim, spume, whip), nános špíny. (various references)

Danish		slaggeblære (foaming, slag-blowhole defect), skum (foam, froth), blokskum (ingot foam, ingot scum). (various references)

Dutch		slakblazen (foaming, slag-blowhole defect), schuim (foam, froth, refuse, rubbish, waste), Tuig (harness, rabble, riff-raff). (various references)

Farsi		پس مانده (Excrement, Leftover, Remainder, Residue), کف (Apron, Blubber, Bottom, Foam, Insole, Silt, Slag), تفاله (Bagasse, Crap, Dross, Ross, Slag, Slop), طبقه وازده اجتماع , درده گرفتن . (various references)

Finnish		vaahto (foam, froth, lather). (various references)

French		mousse, écume. (various references)

German		Schaum (foam, froth, lather, spume, suds, yeast), Abschaum (dregs). (various references)

Greek		κάθαρμα (bleeder, scumbag), σκουριά κορμού (ingot foam, ingot scum), σκουριά πλινθώματος (ingot foam, ingot scum), γλίτσα (slime), βρώμικος αφρός, ξάφρισμα (frothing, skimming, white specks, whitening), φυσαλίδες (foaming, slag-blowhole defect), εξαφρίζω (skim), άφρισμα (foaming, frothing), ακάθαρτος αφρός πλινθώματος (ingot foam, ingot scum), απόβρασμα, αφρόσ ακαθαρσίων, αφρός (foam, froth, spray). (various references)

Hebrew		לקפות (skim), קפ�", חלאת א�"ם (skunk), זו�"מ�" (filth, foulness, impurity, squalor). (various references)

Hungarian		tajték (foam, froth, lather, spume, surf, yeast), hab (foam, froth, mousse, skimmings, spume, surf, yeast), szemét (dreck, dross, garbage, have no end of money, litter, offal, punk, rubbish, rubbishy, sleaze, sleazo, sleazy, snotty, sodding, stinky, sweepings, trash), salak (cinder, clinker, dirt, dross, recrement, scale, slag, sludge), söpredék (dregs, offscourings, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, scurf, sweepings, trash). (various references)

Indonesian		penjahat (bandit, criminal, delinquent, desperado, felon, gangster, tough, villain), busa (blow, foam, gasp, lather, suds). (various references)

Italian		schiuma (foam, froth, lather, spume, suds). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�" (dregs, feces, refuse). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かす (dregs, feces, refuse, to be reduced, to change into, to convert to, to impose, to improve, to influence, to lend, to transform). (various references)

Korean		찌끼. (various references)

Manx		scoodyn (grime, ring, tidemark, tidemark on neck), meeaylys (fatness, fatness scum), kesh (fizz, foam, froth, lather, suds), barrag ghlass. (various references)

Pig Latin		umscay.(various references)

Portuguese		espuma (froth, lather, spume, yeast). (various references)

Romanian		spumega (foam, froth, spume), spumã (cream, foam, froth, head, lather, spume, suds), smântâni laptele (separate the milk, skim), zgurã (cinder, cinders, clinker, dross, foam, scale, scoria, sinter, slag), rebut (jetsam, refuse, reject, rubbish, scrap, spoilage, trash), lua spuma, gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, offscourings, refuse, rubbish, soil, waste), face spumã (churn, cream, fizz, foam, froth), drojdie (barm, draff, dregs, grounds, Lees, residue, tailing, yeast), depunere (administration, deposit, deposition). (various references)

Russian		накипь (descale, froth, incrustation, scale, spume), подонки общества (dregs of society, ragtag, riffraff, usu. and bobtail), пенка (skin), пена;подонок, пена (cream, foam, froth, head, lather, spume). (various references)

Scottish		sgùm, sal (dross, refuse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skrama (skim), pena (foam, lather, mousse, ream, skim, spume, suds), ološ (canaille, rabble, ragtag, riff raff, riffraff, scrum, trash, wreckage), kora (bark, cortex, crust, peel, rind, scurf), bagra, šljam (dirt, gutter). (various references)

Spanish		espumar (foam, froth, skim, skim off), espuma (floating waste, foam, froth, frothiness, head, lather, meerschaum, scud, spray, spume, surf, surface scum), escoria (clinker, dress, dross, scoria, slag). (various references)

Swedish		skum (dim, dimmish, dusky, fishy, foam, froth, funny, head, phoney, queer, shady, spume, yeast), skumma (browse, effervesce, foam, froth, scan, skim), avskum (dregs). (various references)

Thai		เป็นคราบ, ช้อนเอาคราบออก, ฝ้าที่ลอยบนผิวน้ำ, ขยะ (garbage, rubbish). (various references)

Turkish		pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, offscourings, ordure, pollution, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), pis köpük tabakası, köpük bağlamak, köpük (feather, foam, froth, head, lather, mousse, skimmings, spume, suds, yeast), köpüğünü almak (skim). (various references)

Ukrainian		нечистоти (night-soil, ordure, sewage, sewerage), знімати піну, піна (bead, cream, foam, froth, lather, offscum, ream, skim, spume), пінитися (cream, effervesce, fizz, foam, froth, mantle, ream, spume). (various references)

Vietnamese		bọt (bubble). (various references)

Welsh		ysgum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	caeni, caeno, cena, cenis, spuma, spumam. (various references)
German	100 BCE-Modern	Schlacke. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	mousse. (various references)
Middle Dutch	1100-1500	scume. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Ezekiel Chapter 24, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai ou mh exelqh ex authV poluV o ioV authV kataiscunqhsetai o ioV authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Multo labore sudatum est et non exibit de ea nimia rubigo eius neque per ignem
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	With myche traueile it is maad in sweet, and the myche rust of it wente not out therof, nether bi fier.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Ezekiel Chapter 24, Verse 12
Cebuano	Gibudlay na siya sa bulohaton; bisan pa niana ang iyang dakung taya wala mogula kaniya: ang iyang taya wala mogula pinaagi sa kalayo.
Croatian	Grdne li muke! Ali se velika hrða ne dade s njega skinuti: i vatri odolje.
Danish	Møje har den kostet, men den megen Rust gik ikke af. I Ilden med Rusten!
Dutch	Met ijdelheden heeft zij Mij moede gemaakt; nog is haar overvloedig schuim van haar niet uitgegaan; haar schuim moet in het vuur.
Finnish	Siitä on ollut vaivaa väsymykseen asti, mutta ei ole lähtenyt siitä sen ruosteen paljous. Tuleen sen ruoste!
French	Les efforts sont inutiles, la rouille dont elle est pleine ne se détache pas; la rouille ne s`en ira que par le feu.
German	Aber wie sehr er brennt, will sein Rost doch nicht abgehen, denn es ist zuviel des Rosts; er muß im Feuer zerschmelzen.
Haitian Creole	Ala traka pou wete lawouj la! Atousa, lawouj la p'ap fin soti nèt nan dife a.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Tetapi tidak semua karatnya akan hilang ditelan api.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi cuma-cuma juga orang berlelah! karatnya sudah makan terlalu dalam, tiada boleh dilalukan dari padanya, lagi di dalam apipun tahan karatnya.
Italian	Quanta fatica! Ma l'abbondante sua ruggine non si stacca, non scompare da essa neppure con il fuoco.
Maori	Kua hoha ia i te mahi; otiia kihai tona waikura nui i puta atu i roto i a ia; kahore tona waikura i kore i te ahi.
Norwegian	Trettende arbeid har den voldt mig, og allikevel er dens tykke rust ikke gått av den. I ilden med dens rust!
Portuguese	Ela tem-se cansado com trabalhos; contudo não sai dela a sua muita ferrugem pelo fogo.
Rumanian	Trudq de geaba! Cqci rugina de care este plin nu se deslipewte de el; rugina nu se va lua de pe el de ckt prin foc,
Spanish	"En vano son los esfuerzos. Su mucha herrumbre no sale de ella; su herrumbre no sale ni con fuego.
Swedish	Tung möda har den kostat, och ändå har dess myckna rost icke gått bort. Så må nu dess röst komma i elden!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "scum": scumbag, scumbags, scumble, scumbled, scumbles, scumbling, scumlike, scummed, scummer, scummers, scummier, scummiest, scumming, scummy, scums. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccem, cecum, csu, cumm, Escom, ocum, scama, scamu, scbu, scem, scfm, schu, scim, scm, scoim, scom, scoma, Scoms, scon, scoom, scoun, scov, scu, scua, scub, scue, scuk, scumb, scump, Scumta, scumy, scun, scund, scunt, scurm, scuz, sectum, secum, secums, seum, shum, sicu, sicut, sku, skub, socumb, soum, spum, ssm, Ssu, suc, succum, sucj, sucum, summ, suo. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "scum" (pronounced sku"m)
3	-k u" m	become, come, cum, succumb.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-m-s-u"
	-1 letter: cum, mus, sum.
	-2 letters: mu, um, us.
	Words containing the letters "c-m-s-u"
	+1 letter: chums, culms, mucks, mucus, musca, music, scrum, scums, sumac.
	+2 letters: amicus, amucks, campus, cesium, chumps, clumps, clumsy, comous, crumbs, crumps, cubism, cumins, custom, cymous, locums, miscue, miscut, muches, mucins, mucors, mucosa, mucose, mucous, mucros, mulcts, muscae, muscat, muscid, muscle, muscly, musics, sacrum, scrums, scummy, scutum, shmuck, smutch, sumach, sumacs, umiacs.
	+3 letters: acumens, almuces, caesium, calamus, centums, ceriums, cesiums, chymous, columns, combust, coniums, consume, cormous, costume, crinums, crissum, cubisms, cultism, cumbers, cummers, cummins, cumshaw, cumulus, cundums, cuprums, curiums, customs, dictums, ischium, lyceums, maculas, macules, mesclun, miscued, miscues, miscuts, mockups, mollusc, mouches, muckers, muckles, muclucs, mucoids, mucosae, mucosal, mucosas, mucuses, mudcaps, mudcats, mulches, munches, murices, muscats, muscids, muscled, muscles, musical, mutches, osculum, pumices, rectums, sacrums, sambuca, sanctum, schlump, schmuck, scrotum, scumbag, scumble, scummed, scummer, shmucks, smutchy, stickum, succumb, sumachs, talcums, tectums, umiacks, vacuums.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
scum	76	clean soap scum	5
soap scum	38	soap scum remover	5
pond scum	26	school scum	5
scum buster	21	man scum	4
black decker scum buster	12	report scum	3
manifesto scum	12	scum sucker	3
remove soap scum	11	scum movie	3
removing soap scum	10	mansion scum soap spaulding	3
church earth scum	10	confederacy scum	3
scum of earth	8	cabbage scum	2
frog scum	8	project scum	2
scum skateboard	8	earth lyrics scum	2
soap scum removal	7	die scum yuppie	2
scum ball	7	church denver earth scum	2
cleaning soap scum	7	door scum shower soap	2
rebel scum	6	scum skate	2
scum soap spaulding	6	soap scum cleaner	2
bag scum	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scum

Definition: Scum

Scum

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Synonym: Scum

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Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley

Historic Usage: Scum

Communist Manifesto

Use in Literature: Scum

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Non-Fiction Usage: Scum

Usage Frequency: Scum

Expressions: Scum

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scum

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Rhyming with "Scum"