scumshy* n also scrumpshy*, scumpsion*. A fool; epithet for clumsy,
incompetent person (P 37).
C 71-90 If a father told his son to put
the boat on the collar and the boy had some difficulty due to wind and tide, the father
would say, 'Come here, ya scumpshy.' P 127-79 'Well, what a scumpsion Eli Tallyo was!'
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