scunge

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

Every saucepan he owned was piled there, caked with unidentifiable scunge.

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.

A scrounger; one who habitually borrows.

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

“You four scunges need to clean yourselves up,″ Jarrad announced — ironic given his own personal hygiene, Jake thought, which was less than impeccable.

A scoundrel; a worthless or despicable person.

The press officer was glad to get me onto the helicopter back to the airbase, as he obviously thought I must be a bit of a scunge asking political questions, when it was my job to report on how well the war was going and how the North was being held.

To mark with scunge; to begrime or besmirch.

“I was scunged. ... I hated myself, hated everything, felt useless and worthless, had no friends, no love, no career, no education, no parents and no tomorrows. It all added up to nothing.”

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.

Seizing him in his arms he ran into a shop, and seizing a coil of rope, measured off five or six yards, and fastening this round the dog′s neck, set him down, and giving him a few hearty kicks — ‘Hame wi′ you, ye scunging tyke, hame!’ and thus discovered the laird′s dwelling-place.

To scrounge; to borrow.

The Australian Labor Party in Victoria had a very successful result. Members of the National Party are scunging around trying to win Ballarat!

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? […] ’