offscouring
offscouring noun: refuse removed from something by scouring.
Noun
offscouring (plural offscourings)
- Refuse removed from something by scouring.
- An outcast, a pariah.
- By repeating a form of words after a gentleman in a glazed cap and black raiment, we had suffered change into base assassins, the offscouring of society, starving for want of employment, and willing to “imbrue our coarse fists in fraternal blood” for the sum of eleven dollars a month, besides...1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath
offscouring meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
offscouring in Tamil
- கழிவு
offscouring in Urdu
- کوڑا, تلچھٹ
Forms of offscouring
| plural | offscourings |
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Origin of offscouring
From off- + scouring.
Questions about offscouring
- What does offscouring mean?
- Offscouring means refuse removed from something by scouring.
- What is offscouring in Tamil?
- Offscouring in Tamil is கழிவு. See Offscouring meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is offscouring?
- Offscouring is a noun.
- What is the plural of offscouring?
- The plural of offscouring is offscourings.
Words near offscouring in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: offscouring (page history and authors); offscouring (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offscouring (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offscouring (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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