scumble

1. 1.

   the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture

   Broaderapplication

Other forms of scumble

plural

scumbles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about scumble

What does scumble mean?

scumble means "the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture".

How many syllables are in scumble?

scumble has 2 syllables: scum-ble. The stress falls on "scum".

Is scumble a common word?

scumble is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.