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What (who) is SCUMMY - definition

2006 FILM BY PAUL FRASER
Scummy; Scummy man

Scummy         
·adj Covered with scum; of the nature of scum.
scummy         
1) crappy, lame, pathetic
2) one who is happy to be scruffy in looks or personality. Not taking pride in one's self.
That hobo's so scummy it's sad.
Carla Lynch         
BRITISH COMEDIAN
Scummy Mummy
Carla Jade Lynch (born 19 May 1984, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British comedian and model who plays the "Scummy Mummy" in Channel 4's comedy show Balls of Steel. Lynch got her first break in television as a presenter on Channel 4's Whatever in 2006.

Wikipedia

Scummy Man

Scummy Man is a short film, written and directed by Paul Fraser and produced by Mark Herbert and Diarmid Scrimshaw, based on the song "When the Sun Goes Down" by the Arctic Monkeys, and released on DVD on 10 April 2006 by Domino Recording Company. The film, like the song, focuses on prostitution in Sheffield, and uses the same actors as the music video to document a night in the life of the fictional 'Nina', a 15-year-old drug addict who works as a prostitute in the Neepsend district.

The film stars Lauren Socha as 'Nina' and Stephen Graham as George, known by the nickname of 'Scummy Man', a violent and manipulative 'customer' of 'Nina's, who attacks and intimidates both 'Nina' and those who try to help her escape prostitution, such as a magician who offers her a job as his assistant in his act. The magician becomes a victim of the Scummy Man's behaviour but is not without his own flaws, as the film-maker begs if anyone is really inherently good.

In order to achieve a documentary feel for the footage, the film was shot in 16 mm film by Danny Cohen. The DVD includes an extra film titled Just Another Day, which is more hopeful and upbeat in tone, and focuses on how every day events, such as being offered a lift by a taxicab driver, present opportunity and hope for her future. Just Another Day depicts the same chain of events, but from the perspective of the taxi driver who brings the Scummy Man to Nina, who takes pity on her as she reminds him of his own daughter who died young and would have been the same age as Nina were she still alive.

The name of the film comes from a line in "When the Sun Goes Down", describing the "customer" of the girl featured in the song,

And what a scummy man
Just give him half a chance, I bet he'll rob you if he can
You can see it in his eyes, yeah, that he's got a driving ban
amongst some other offences

The film won an award for "Best Music DVD" at the 2007 NME Awards on 1 March 2007.

The only band member to appear in the film is Matt Helders. He is offered oral sex by Nina at the beginning of the film, but turns it down, saying he is going to band practice. Besides this, Helders and Alex Turner are seen carrying musical equipment through a gate in the credits of Just Another Day, but they do not feature in the film itself.

Examples of use of SCUMMY
1. What I didn‘t know until I read through some of her speeches this week is that Schapiro also gets the fundamental problem with Wall Street‘s scummy culture.
2. A few years ago we were all moaning about oil–seed rape, a yellow blight, a scummy top dressing on some of our loveliest countryside.
3. "We don‘t have niggers like you here!" yelled the manager of a scummy youth hostel before throwing my belongings out of a first–floor window, scattering them over the street.
4. She‘s determined to have no contact with him and doesn‘t want to see him or any of his scummy mates." It was reported today that she‘s even changed her phone numbers so Pete can‘t contact her.
5. He wittily documents stroppy club bouncers (From the Ritz to the Rubble), sulky girlfriends (Mardy Bum), shady local characters (Scummy) and boozy nightlife (Dancing Shoes), humanising his wry observations with a sense of yearning romance.