英和和英

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2024/12/21 16:27 UTC 版)

語源

Perhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).

発音

韻: -ʌmbə(ɹ)

名詞

scumber (countable and uncountable, plural scumbers)

(usually of a person, dog or fox) dung; excrement
- 1848, Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877, History of the Jesuits‎, →OCLC:
  
  […] having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.
- 1900, Johnstone, Julian E, Songs of Sun and Shadow‎, →OCLC:
  
  A human vulture, God sent thee The world's great scavenger to be. To cleanse it of its scumber;
- 1660, Howell, James., Lexicon Tetraglotton […] ‎:
  
  […] the Scumber of the Fox, the Spraints of the Otter […]
- 1958, Djuna Barnes, The Antiphon‎:
  
  Let’s see, if by your scumber, you are fox!
- 2012, Collins, B. R, The Broken Road‎, →OCLC:
  
  Someone shouts something and he turns and shouts back, ‘Just going for a scumber, all right? Back in a moment.

動詞

scumber (third-person singular simple present scumbers, present participle scumbering, simple past and past participle scumbered)

to defecate
- 1655, Mennes, John, Sir, 1599-1671, Musarum Deliciae ; and, Wit Restor'd‎:
  
  But he that gaines the glory here Muſt ſcumber furtheſt, ſhite moſt clear.
- 1656, Choyce Drollery‎:
  
  Beware of fire when you ſcumber, Though to ſh-- [shit] fire were a wonder,
- 1784, Rabelais, Francois., translated by M. Le Du Chat et al., The works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French […] ‎:
  
  […] and old Nick turn me into Bumfodder, if this did not make me ſo hide-bound and coſtive; that for four or five Days I hardly ſcumber'd one poor Butt of Sir-reverance and that too was full as dry and hard, I protest
- 2009, Cooke, Sophie, Under the Mountain‎, →OCLC:
  
  He’s not to come in the house, though, Natasha. Other than to scumber, I suppose. / What? / To disencumber. His bowels.
1. of a dog or fox
  - c. 1410, The Master of Game‎:
    
    Some tyme pei han a siknesse bat pei mowe not pisse and byn ilost therbi, and also whan pei mowe not scombire
    
    Sometimes the hounds have a great sickness that they may not piss, and be lost thereby and also when they may not scumber.
  - 1630, Massinger, Philip, The Picture a Tragae Comaedie […] ‎:
    
    a brace of gray-houndes When they are ledd out of their kennels to ſcumber
  - 1832, Scott, Walter, Woodstock; or, The Cavalier‎, →OCLC:
    
    But that their beds were heav'd on high ; They thought some dog under did lie, And meant i' th' chamber (fie, fie, fie,) To scumber.