Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

offscouring

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: off-s-cour-ing
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Refuse removed from something by scouring.

noun

An outcast, a pariah.

Example Sentences

"1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath 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 hard-tack, salt junk, and the hope of a Confederate States bond apiece for bounty, or free loot in the treasuries of Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas, after the war."

Etymology

From off- + scouring.

Inflected Forms

offscourings (plural)

Questions

What does offscouring mean?: Refuse removed from something by scouring.
Where does offscouring come from?: From off- + scouring.

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