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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scumber .
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Examples
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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 2002
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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 2002
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I hardly scumbered one poor butt of sir-reverence; and that, too, was full as dry and hard, I protest, as Catullus tells us were those of his neighbour Furius:
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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For one day by chance I happened to read a chapter of them at Poictiers, at the most decretalipotent Scotch doctor’s, 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 scumbered one poor butt of sir-reverence; and that, too, was full as dry and hard, I protest, as Catullus tells us were those of his neighbour
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For one day by chance I happened to read a chapter of them at Poictiers, at the most decretalipotent Scotch doctor’s, 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 scumbered one poor butt of sir-reverence; and that, too, was full as dry and hard, I protest, as Catullus tells us were those of his neighbour
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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