Noun: scum
| Singular | scum |
| Plural | scums; scum |
Sample Sentences
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During smelting, scum rises to the surface and is then removed by the smelter.
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These organisms form scum in large quantities.
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Horse, who was always talking about facts, said, “Man, that can't be scum, ’cause scum is white.” [1965, Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, New York: New American Library, →OCLC, page 80:]
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People who sell used-up pens are scum, just total low-lives.
Nouns inflected like scum
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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: Dutch Nouns '
schuim', German Nouns '
Schaum', French Nouns '
écume', Italian Nouns '
schiuma'.
Verbs referencing "scum"
German Nouns
Schaum, Danish Nouns
skum, Swedish Nouns
skum, Dutch Nouns
schuim.