scum
/skʌm/ verb C2- To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
- To remove (something) as scum.
- To become covered with scum.
- To startscum or savescum.
He/she/it scums · Past scummed · Past participle scummed · -ing form scumming
Verb forms
- Base form
- scum
- He/she/it
- scums
- Past
- scummed
- Past participle
- scummed
- -ing form
- scumming
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I take them when they come in my way, but I do not hunt the Bandar-log, or frogs--or green scum on a water-hole, for that matter.”
From the end of it a small wand planted here and there showed where the path zigzagged from tuft to tuft of rushes among those green-scummed pits and foul quagmires which barred the way to the stranger.
The exclamations, the insults addressed to Benedetto, who remained perfectly unconcerned, the energetic gestures, the movement of the gendarmes, the sneers of the scum of the crowd always sure to rise to the surface in case of any disturbance—all this lasted five minutes, before the door-keepers and magistrates were able to restore silence.
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