scobs
/skɒbz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This was so much the case in antient times that the floor of the dining room was generally covered with scobs or sawdust to absorb what Seneca calls the purgamenta et jactus cænantium, the “excretions and discharges of the guests." The scobs became at length a point of luxury. Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not find amber enough for that purpose."
- "Dump your wet scobs in the trash barrel, replace your dust pan, hand broom and #10 can."
- "On our knees we began by sprinkling “scobs” (lightly oiled sawdust) on a cement stair, then with a hand broom, sweeping those scobs down to the next stair, until we got to the bottom."
- "The Uncles Brickell, Swarfega kings, enseamed with swarf and scobs, skin measled with gunmetal but glistening faintly, loud in the smoke."
- "The scobs thereof Diose, helps those that are hurt by quicksilver, taken inwardly, or used outwardly, it attracting to it selfe"
- "scobs and ashes of graphite"
Etymology
From Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere (“to scrape”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scobs
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /skɒbz/