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offscourings

offscourings is the plural of offscouring.

Meaning of offscouring

Noun

offscouring (plural offscourings)

  1. Refuse removed from something by scouring.
  2. (figuratively) 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

Questions about offscourings

What is offscourings the plural of?
Offscourings is the plural of offscouring.

Words near offscourings in the dictionary

  1. offscape
  2. offscapes
  3. offscour
  4. offscoured
  5. offscouring
  6. offscourings
  7. offscours
  8. offscraping
  9. offscreen
  10. offscreened
  11. offscreening

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