Scummy

Definition: Scummy

Scummy

Adjective

1. Of the most contemptible kind; "abject cowardice"; "a low stunt to pull"; "a low-down sneak"; "his miserable treatment of his family"; "You miserable skunk!"; "a scummy rabble"; "a scurvy trick".

2. Covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scummy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms: Scummy

Crosswords: Scummy

Albanian

me zgjyrë, me shkumë (spumy, sudsy, yeasty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مغطى بالزبد, ‏مزبد (barmy, buttery, foamy, frothing, frothy, lathery), ‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, petty, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

като пяна, покрит с обгар, пенест (barmy, foamy, frothy, nappy, soapy, sudsy). (various references)

Chinese 

浮渣 (Dross, scum). (various references)

Czech

pìnovitý. (various references)

Farsi 

کف الود (Sudsy). (various references)

French

spumeux, de salaud, couvert d'écume, écumeux. (various references)

German

schaumig (foamily, foaming, foamy, frothy, lathery, sudsily, sudsy). (various references)

Greek 

βρώμικοσ (dirty, filthy, grubby, mucky, scruffy, smudgy), βρωμερόσ (fetid, filthy, foul, nasty, squalid, stench), τιποτένιοσ (chaffy, measly, paltry, petty, piddling, scamp, trashy, trifling, two-penny, worthless), ουτιδανόσ (miscreant). (various references)

Hungarian

habos (curly, foamy, frothy, intershot, spumous, spumy), vashabbal borított, tajtékzó (frothing, frothy, lathery), tajtékszerű, tajtékos (crested, drossy), szemét-, salakhabbal borított, hitvány (bloody, caddish, dastardly, despicable, grovelling, mean, naught, perfidious, pitiable, punk, raffish, rascally, rinky-dink, rubbishy, scurvied, scurvy, shoddy, skunk, sordid, squalid, tin-pot, trashy, vile, worthless), habzó (beady, churning, effervescent, foamy, frothing, frothy, gassy, lathery), habszerű, gyatra (lame, picayune), csőcselék-. (various references)

Italian

spumoso (frothy), schiumoso (barmy, foamy, frothy, lathery). (various references)

Korean 

�"러운 (Dirty, foul, grubby, messy). (various references)

Manx

scoodynagh, meeaylysagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

ummyscay.(various references)

Portuguese

próprio da ralé, escumoso (spumous, spumy), escoriáceo, coberto de escórias, cheio de espuma (lathery), baixo (base, bass, bass voice, basso, caitiff, common, dumpy, dwarfish, hereinafter, hollow, ignoble, lily-livered, low, low-down, lowered, mean, mediocre, menial, nether, obsequious, pygmean, raffish, rascally, reptile, scurrilous, scurvy, servile, shallow, short, slavish, small, sordid, superficial, vulgar, vulgarian). (various references)

Romanian

spumos (barmy, brisk, foamy, frothy, lathery, sparkling, yeasty), mârşav (despicable, dirty, grovelling, infamous, mean, shameful, skunk). (various references)

Russian 

низкий (deep, dishonourable, give away, hangdog, ignoble, infamous, keen, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, nefarious, picayune, poor, scurvy, short, stinkard, vile, wormy), подлый (base, dastardly, despicable, dirty, ignoble, mean, meanspirited, mean-spirited, rascally, reprobate, reptile, scoundrelly, sneaking, vile, villainous, wormy), пенистый (barmy, foamy, frothy, spumous, spumy, sudsy, yeasty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

penušav (barmy, foamy, frothy, nappy, sparkling, spumous, spumy), penast (foamy, lathery, spumy). (various references)

Spanish

espumoso (barmy, bubbly, foaming, foamy, frothy, sparkling, spumous, spumy). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งเป็นคราบ (sloughy). (various references)

Turkish

pis (augean, black, dingy, dirty, dungy, effing, filthy, foul, frowzy, goatish, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, miasmal, miasmatic, miry, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, scruffy, slimy, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly), köpüklü kir bağlamış, iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, distasteful, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), ayaktakımından. (various references)

Ukrainian

пінистий (barmy, brisk, foamy, frothy, lathery, spumous, white-headed, yeasty), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, picayune, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có váng. (various references)

Misspellings

"Scummy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scumie, scumy, Scunny, summy, sumy. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mums, scum.

-3 letters: cum, mum, mus, sum, umm, yum.

-4 letters: mm, mu, my, um, us.

+4 letters: cymbidiums.