Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Refuse; scum.
- Vile; outcast.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Removed scum; refuse; dross.
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- noun
Refuse ;scum . - adjective obsolete
Vile ;outcast .
Etymologies
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From off- + scum.
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Examples
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They are free certainly, but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society ....
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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They are free certainly but they are also degraded, rejected, the offscum and the offscouring of the very dregs of your society; they are free from the chain, the whip, the enforced task and unpaid toils of slavery; but they are not the less under a ban. "[
whichbe commented on the word offscum
That which is rejected as vile or worthless.
May 12, 2008