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| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Substantiivit |
| 1. | | slangi, halventava |
| 2. | | slangi, halventava |
| 3. | | puhekieli |
| 4. | | halventava |
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal or water).
- (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
- (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen
- (countable, derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
- (countable, derogatory, slang) police officer(s)
Verbit
- To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
- To remove (something) as scum.
- To become covered with scum.
- (obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
- (obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
- To startscum or savescum.
Esimerkit
- Some scumd the drosse, that from the metall came; / Some stird the molten owre with ladles great.
- Take the smallest Cucumbers you can get, and as free from Spots as possible, put them into a strong Salt and Water for nine or ten Days, or 'till they are quite Yellow, and stir them twice a Day at least, or they will scum over, and grow soft
- SOo by Merlyns aduys ther were sente fore rydars to skumme the Countreye / & they mette with the fore rydars of the north / and made hem to telle whiche wey the hooste cam / and thenne they told it to Arthur / and by kyng Ban and Bors counceill they lete brenne and destroye alle the contrey afore them there they shold ryde
- Wandering up and down without certain seat, they lived by scumming those seas and shores as pirates.
- A great majority of the members are scummed together from the Jacobinical dregs of former periods of the revolution.
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