Home › Words › S › scumberscumberscumber means dung; excrement.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scumber ranks #42,049 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyPerhaps Old French escumbrier (“to disencumber”).nounDung; excrement.e.g.“[…]having no regard of me, and never looking upon me but as the scumber of the world.” — 1848, Steinmetz, Andrew, 1816-1877, History of the Jesuits, →OCLC:verbTo defecate.To defecate.; of a dog or foxe.g.“Some tyme pei han a siknesse bat pei mowe not pisse and byn ilost therbi, and also whan pei mowe not scombire” — c. 1410, The Master of Game:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).