Scummy vs Scrummy - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between scummy and scrummy

is that scummy is covered in scum while scrummy is delicious.

(er)

Covered in scum.

We have to wash your trousers: they're all scummy .

(slang) sleazy, worthless, no good

* 2006 , (Arctic Monkeys), When the Sun Goes Down (song)

And what a scummy man / just give him half a chance / I bet he'll rob you if he can.

(er)

(childish, or, colloquial, UK) delicious

* 1930 , Ralph Hale Mottram, The English Miss

Of course one did get some scrummy things to eat abroad, that cook did not, somehow, produce at home; and the people looked different...

* 2004 , Alan Murphy, Scotland

There's an all day menu, with lots of fish dishes such as fish soup, tuna, and monkfish. Pudding might include a scrummy rosemary panacotta.

* 2006 , Julie Wilson, Our Spanish Winters

After mopping up the last bits with my scrummy nan breads we settled down to watch the DVD of "The Two Towers" from "Lord of the Rings"...

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