scunge

vt.借,借入

发音

AU

词形变化

scunges 复数 scunges scunged scungeing scunges 三单 scunging scunging 现在分词 scungeing 现在分词 scunged 过去式 scunged 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Muck, scum, dirt, dirtiness; also used attributively.

    俚语 不可数 可数

    In two mad days Scully painted out the whole interior in lime wash, and the place suddenly seemed brighter, bigger, cleaner, and so strangely wholesome that it made him realize how foul it had been before, what scunge he'd really been dealing with day and night.

  2. 2.

    A scrounger; one who habitually borrows.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  3. 3.

    A dirty or untidy person; one who takes no pride in their appearance.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  4. 4.

    A scoundrel; a worthless or despicable person.

    可数 贬义 俚语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.

  2. 2.

    To slink about; to sneak, to insinuate.

    1846, author not visible, The Disruption: A Scottish Tale of Recent Times, R. M. Walker (printer), Edinburgh, page 341, Neither will ye scunge after the gentry like M′Quirkie, and keep your creed in your hand ready to swap it for ony ither that may happen to be mair profitable.

  3. 3.

    To scrounge; to borrow.

    2011, Nichola Garvey, Beating the Odds, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page, ‘ […] My business does all the work, and you want to come and scunge a market off me and don′t even have a bet? […] ’

词源

Probably related to scrounge.

来源:wiktionary