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oomska

oomska noun: filth, dirt.

Noun

oomska (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Filth, dirt.
    • You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without Wellingtons?1986, Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I (screenplay)
    • Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates was put to work on the latrine-wagon – ladling liquid, roiling oomska from latrines shared by a thousand people a day.2011 March 5, Caitlin Moran, “I'm so tired by TV journeys”, in The Times

Origin of oomska

Perhaps a pig Latin form of scum.

Questions about oomska

What does oomska mean?
Oomska means filth, dirt.
What part of speech is oomska?
Oomska is a noun.

Words near oomska in the dictionary

  1. oomphing
  2. oomphless
  3. oomphs
  4. oomphy
  5. ooms
  6. oomska
  7. oomycete
  8. oomyceteous
  9. oomycetes
  10. oomyceticidal
  11. oomycetous

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