or scummer, subs. (old).—Excrement: as verb. = to defecate (COTGRAVE, 1611, s.v. Chier).
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Chinchimurra … A SKAMMERING of a dog.
[?]. Ulysses upon Ajax, B.6. The picture of a fellow in a square cap SCUMMERING at a privy.
1630. MASSINGER, The Picture, v. 1.
| Just such a one as you use to a Brace of Greyhounds, | |
| When they are led out of their Kennels to SCUMBER. |
1658. Musarum Deliciæ, ‘On Epsom Wells.’
| For here old Ops her upper face | |
| Is yellow, not with heat of summer, | |
| But safroniz’d with mortall SCUMMER. |
