英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ˈskʌmi/
• 韻: -ʌmi

形容詞

scummy (comparative scummier, superlative scummiest)

1. Covered in scum.

   Coordinate terms: cruddy, gungy, mucky

   Hypernyms: befouled, manky, sullied; see also Thesaurus:unclean

   We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Now that the sun was getting high it drew thin sickly looking clouds of poisonous vapour from the surface of the marsh and from the scummy pools of stagnant water.

2. (slang) sleazy, worthless, no good

   Synonyms: lousy, vile; good-for-nothing, valueless; see also Thesaurus:despicable, Thesaurus:worthless

   • 2006, Arctic Monkeys, “When the Sun Goes Down”:

     And what a scummy man / just give him half a chance / I bet he'll rob you if he can.

派生語

• scummy mummy
• scuzzy