Examples
“Found fox scumber, under my pillow, makes for a shitty slumber.”
“Having then made shift to get up at noon, they pulled off their boots, and those that wanted to speak with a maid, alias piss, pissed; those that wanted to scumber, scumbered; and those that wanted to sneeze, sneezed.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scumber’.
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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Specific Excrement
Words that describe poo *very specifically*.
guano, frass, spraints, fumets, mutessing, fiants, crottels, worm-cast, tath, bodewash, coprolite, bois de vache and 55 more...
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Drop a deuce
rejectamenta, coprolite, ordure, stercoration, egesta, fecula, scumber, coprology, meconium, midden, nightsoil, honeywagon and 42 more...
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A-Hunting We Will Go
Hunting terms. See also http://www.wordnik.com/lists/hunting-cries
gorgeaunt, forloyne, dryfoot, foothot, fimashing, allay, mort, coursing, strake, battue, jink, jack and 27 more...
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chained_bear "The dung of a dog or fox." (OED) It can also be a verb, "Of a dog or fox: To evacuate the fæces. Also jocularly of a person." See also the delightful verb bescumber, which doesn't mean quite the same thing. May 6, 2008