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scaffies

scaffies is the plural of scaffy.

scaffies is the plural of scaffie.

Meaning of scaffy

Noun

scaffy (plural scaffies)

  1. (Scotland, colloquial) A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector.
    • The scaffies were out, hosing down the pavement. I liked the aura of early morning – it felt like the end of the world, which suited my mood.2009, Tony Black, Gutted, page 135

Meaning of scaffie

Noun

scaffie (plural scaffies)

  1. (UK, dated, dialectal) A dustman or street sweeper.

Questions about scaffies

What is scaffies the plural of?
Scaffies is the plural of scaffy.

Words near scaffies in the dictionary

  1. scaff tag
  2. scaff tags
  3. Scaffidi
  4. Scaffidis
  5. scaffie
  6. scaffies
  7. scaffling
  8. scaffold
  9. scaffold hopping
  10. scaffold protein
  11. scaffold proteins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scaffies (page history and authors); scaffy (page history and authors); scaffie (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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