scum
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4.2
- noun
- /skʌm/
:
espuma
- Nothing like mold and scum floating to make me ill.
- sludge and scum
Now sordido grime, right, kind of scum and, and things like that.
- Now sordido grime, right, kind of scum and, and things like that.
- Like terror, like pure primordial pond scum creationary terror of just.
- Pine warbler, Prairie warbler and Yellow Warbler, Maggots collecting water slide with garbage bits and scum down the steel slope.
Examples
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Left a scum residue everywhere but here.
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I see no scum here.
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In late summer, the pond would be covered by a green and bubbly scum.
Fiction book (2001) -
Stagnant yellow-green scum on the water eerily bubbled along the edge.
Fiction book (1992) -
With volcanoes smoking in the distance, brilliantly colored pools of greenish-brown scum created a sheen on the stench-filled water.
Academic text (2007) -
The surface of the pond was covered with a green layer of scum that made the water look dirty.
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After the rain, scum formed on the top of the stagnant water, indicating it was contaminated.
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You should always skim off any visible scum when boiling broth to keep it clear and clean.
Synonyms
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6.6
A thin layer that forms on the top of a liquid
2
5.4
A green slippery layer of tiny plants that floats on the surface of still water
Dirt and waste removed when you clean something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scum comes from an old word meaning 'foam' or 'froth', like the German Schaum. So scum originally named the thin dirty layer that forms on the surface of a liquid, which is why it now means that top layer of dirt or algae.