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Meaning of "scunge" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCUNGE

Of unknown origin.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SCUNGE

scunge  [skʌndʒ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCUNGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scunge is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb scunge in English.

WHAT DOES SCUNGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of scunge in the English dictionary

The first definition of scunge in the dictionary is to borrow. Other definition of scunge is a dirty or worthless person. Scunge is also a person who borrows, esp habitually.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCUNGE

PRESENT

Present
I scunge
you scunge
he/she/it scunges
we scunge
you scunge
they scunge
Present continuous
I am scunging
you are scunging
he/she/it is scunging
we are scunging
you are scunging
they are scunging
Present perfect
I have scunged
you have scunged
he/she/it has scunged
we have scunged
you have scunged
they have scunged
Present perfect continuous
I have been scunging
you have been scunging
he/she/it has been scunging
we have been scunging
you have been scunging
they have been scunging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I scunged
you scunged
he/she/it scunged
we scunged
you scunged
they scunged
Past continuous
I was scunging
you were scunging
he/she/it was scunging
we were scunging
you were scunging
they were scunging
Past perfect
I had scunged
you had scunged
he/she/it had scunged
we had scunged
you had scunged
they had scunged
Past perfect continuous
I had been scunging
you had been scunging
he/she/it had been scunging
we had been scunging
you had been scunging
they had been scunging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will scunge
you will scunge
he/she/it will scunge
we will scunge
you will scunge
they will scunge
Future continuous
I will be scunging
you will be scunging
he/she/it will be scunging
we will be scunging
you will be scunging
they will be scunging
Future perfect
I will have scunged
you will have scunged
he/she/it will have scunged
we will have scunged
you will have scunged
they will have scunged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been scunging
you will have been scunging
he/she/it will have been scunging
we will have been scunging
you will have been scunging
they will have been scunging
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would scunge
you would scunge
he/she/it would scunge
we would scunge
you would scunge
they would scunge
Conditional continuous
I would be scunging
you would be scunging
he/she/it would be scunging
we would be scunging
you would be scunging
they would be scunging
Conditional perfect
I would have scunge
you would have scunge
he/she/it would have scunge
we would have scunge
you would have scunge
they would have scunge
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been scunging
you would have been scunging
he/she/it would have been scunging
we would have been scunging
you would have been scunging
they would have been scunging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you scunge
we let´s scunge
you scunge
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to scunge
Past participle
scunged
Present Participle
scunging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCUNGE


blunge
blʌndʒ
dispunge
dɪsˈpʌndʒ
emunge
ɪˈmʌndʒ
expunge
ɪkˈspʌndʒ
grunge
ɡrʌndʒ
gunge
ɡʌndʒ
longe
lʌndʒ
lunge
lʌndʒ
muskellunge
ˈmʌskəˌlʌndʒ
Narayanganj
nəˈrɑːjənˌɡʌndʒ
plunge
plʌndʒ
replunge
riːˈplʌndʒ
sponge
spʌndʒ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCUNGE

scumlike
scummed
scummer
scummier
scummiest
scummily
scumming
scummy
scuncheon
scundered
scungier
scungiest
scungilli
scungy
scunner
scunnered
Scunthorpe
scup
scuppaug
scupper

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCUNGE

airport lounge
arrivals lounge
chaise lounge
cocktail lounge
departure lounge
enterchaunge
executive lounge
faculty lounge
Kumaratunge
lounge
scrounge
sun lounge
take the plunge
television lounge
transfer lounge
transit lounge
VIP lounge

Synonyms and antonyms of scunge in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scunge» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCUNGE

Find out the translation of scunge to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scunge from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scunge» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

scunge
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

scunge
570 millions of speakers

English

scunge
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

scunge
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

scunge
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

scunge
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

scunge
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

scunge
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

scunge
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terjun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

scunge
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

scunge
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

scunge
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Scunge
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

scunge
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

scunge
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

काकू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

scunge
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scunge
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

scunge
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

scunge
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scunge
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

scunge
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

scunge
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

scunge
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

scunge
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scunge

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCUNGE»

The term «scunge» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.178 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCUNGE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «scunge» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «scunge» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scunge

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCUNGE»

Discover the use of scunge in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scunge and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Going for the Laugh
Jeff coined the name 'Scunge' for Ronny and it fit perfectly. If you can picture a ' Scunge', it was Ronnie. We all called him the Scunge when he wasn't around and the Scunge when he was. He was Ron Scunge and one of the girls thought ...
Martin Zuckerman, 2003
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Collected Poems
Les Murray. More plainly climatic, shorts are farmers' rig leathery with salt and bonemeal, are sailors' and branch bankers' rig, the crisp golfing style of our youngest male National Costume. Mostly loosely, they are Scunge, ancient Bengal ...
Les Murray, 2006
3
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray
Mostly loosely, they are Scunge, ancient Bengal bloomers or motheaten hot pants worn with a former shirt, feet, beach sand,hair and a paucity ofsignals. Scunge, whichis real negligée housework ina swimsuit, pyjamas worn all day, is holiday, ...
Les Allan Murray, 2012
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"Les Murray Country": Development and Significance of an ...
1 -9) The poem proceeds to discuss, tongue in cheek, the meaning of shorts in the realm of costume ("If the cardinal points of costume / are Robes, Tat, Rig, and Scunge, / where are the shorts in this compass?", p. 234, 11. 10 - 12). Shorts turn  ...
Ulla Fürstenberg, 2004
5
Darkness
Scunge's mother was curious. “Where's Johnny?” Mrs Topper loved all her son's friends but Johnny Prescott had a special place in her heart “I'm gonna pick him up on the way.” The friends began to move, taking their coffee cups to the sink ...
Matthew Nicholls, 2013
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Selected Poems
Mostly loosely, they are Scunge, ancient Bengal bloomers or moth-eaten hot pants worn with a former shirt, feet, beach sand, hair and a paucity of signals. Scunge, which is real negligée housework in a swimsuit, pyjamas worn all day, ...
Les A. Murray, 2007
7
My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years ...
To be truly traditional, the grill should be constructed of the following materials: • 4 percent "rust-resistant" steel; • 58 percent rust; • 23 percent hardened black grill scunge from food cooked as far back as 1987 (the scunge should never be ...
Dave Barry, 2013
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The paperbark tree: selected prose
Scunge when it refers to clothes need not connote dirt. Summer scunge is often quite clean, in a leached-out sunfaded sort of way. Unlike student scunge and artistic scunge, which is often carefully composed and full of sociopolitical signals (a ...
Les A. Murray, 1992
9
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
('The Quality of Sprawl") Scunge, which is real negligée housework in a swimsuit, pyjamas worn all day, is holiday, is freedom from ambition. Scunge makes you invisible to the world and yourself. ('The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever') The ...
Neil Roberts, 2014
10
The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
Kyiie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 1 5, 1988 3 a habitual cadger AUSTRALIA • Gloria is a real scunge, she's always borrowing my lipstick. — wwwabc.net.au/wordmap, 2003 SCUnge verb to cadge something NEWZEALAND • To ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCUNGE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scunge is used in the context of the following news items.
1
When tormented genius really meant something
For my Masters in post-war and contemporary art history at Manchester University I decided (curiously) to write about grunge and rad scunge in Australia. Yes ... «Echonetdaily, Jun 15»
2
True Detective's second season is a different universe
... replaced by Colin Farrell, Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams getting down and dirty among crims and hookers in the scunge and sleaze of West Hollywood. «The Australian, Jun 15»
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Robert Cahill, 77
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Robert (Scunge) Cahill, 77, of Westerleigh, a retired Transit Authority bus driver who loved his family and doted on his grandchildren, ... «SILive.com, Dec 14»
4
Pickle treat: Fermenting food is in fashion
Fermenting food is simple and satisfying. It's also unpredictable, messy and sometimes utterly gross: jars will bubble over, there will be plenty of bacterial scunge ... «The Independent, Oct 14»
5
Soldier Claims Fast Food Worker Put Anti-Microbial Wipes in His Drink
U.S. Army Major Tony Wingfield wanted some fried chicken, but was unaware that it came with a delicious beverage of carbonated scunge juice. Wingfield was ... «Jezebel, Jul 14»
6
Portrait of the artist as a young man
Hair, stains and scunge. These Sisters of Mercy, these Ladies of Perpetual Succour saved my life from the drifting river of drink and self-pity I was drowning in ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 14»
7
This Madman Has Created Deep-Fried Spam Donuts and Must be …
There is a crazed spam gunman on the loose in Preston, Lancashire, Whimblybobbles, Bumpley-upon-Scunge, England.* In honor of Friday's National Donut ... «Jezebel, Jun 14»
8
Saint Crispin
The new owners have scrubbed away the scunge and found the building's soul, and they're backed by a jaunty wine list and ace waiters that make the ... «Good Food, Jul 13»
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Arts & Entertainment : Music Review
... responsible punk rock, The Shirks were proudly releasing who-gives-a-fuck scunge of the sort that once led Mitch Miller to sneer, “It's not music, it's a disease. «Washington City Paper, Mar 13»
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NRL goes for the brainy solution
Why, when we are dressed in scunge and grunge, just like our fathers taught us, and their fathers taught them, do each and every one of you look like you're ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Scunge [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/scunge>. Apr 2024 ».
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