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OFFSCOURINGS

Date "OFFSCOURINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Synonyms within Context: OFFSCOURINGS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Uncleanness

Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: OFFSCOURINGS

Specialty definitions using "OFFSCOURINGS": Dung-gate. (references)
Etymologies containing "OFFSCOURINGS": Purgament. (references)

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Expression: OFFSCOURINGS

Expression using "OFFSCOURINGS": the offscourings of humanity. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OFFSCOURINGS

Language Translations for "OFFSCOURINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

plehra (dust, garbage, mullock, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, sweepings, tailings, trash, waste). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

утайка (crust, deposit, drains, dregs, faeces, feculence, grouts, precipitate, precipitation, ragtag, residue, residuum, rinsings, sediment, sludge, warp), мръсотия (beastliness, dirt, dirtiness, filth, foulness, grime, impurity, mess, muck, mud, obscenity, ordure, squalor), измет (ragtag, riffraff, scum, sweepings, tag-rag). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odpadky (garbage, litter, oddments, offal, refuse, rubbish, trash, trimmings), spodina (dregs, the scum). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απορρίμματα (dross, litter, offal, refuse, trash). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

söpredék (dregs, rabble, raff, ragtag, riff raff, scum, scurf, sweepings, trash). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

offscouringsay

   

Portuguese

  

gasto (consumption, cost, effete, exhausted, expenditure, expense, impoverished, jaded, old, out, outgo, seedy, shabby, spent, threadbare, trite, untrue, waste, wear), declínio (declension, decline, descent, down-grade, ebb, ebb tide, falling-off, owl-light, twilight, wane, waste), decréscimo (wane, waste), desgaste (abrasion, attrition, detrition, fret, friction, inroad, wastage, waste, wear), desperdício (loss, prodigality, rubbish, wastage, waste), dissipação (dissipation, fastness, riot, waste), coisas inúteis, estrago (damage, havoc, mischief, scathe, waste), sucata (waste), gentalha (mob, people, populace, rabble, ragtag), lixo (filth, garbage, litter, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweeping, trash, waste), perda (bereavement, confusion, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, leakage, loss, misbirth, miscarriage, miss, perdition, prejudice, privation, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck), quebra (breach, breaking, cracker, failure, fracture, smash, snap, violation, wastage, waste), refugo (cull, dirt, garbage, jetsam, mullock, offal, raffle, refuse, reject, riffraff, rubbish, scum, spoilage, trash, trumpery), restos (garbage, leavings, lees, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, reliquiae, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, scraps, survival, waste), esbanjamento (extravagance, prodigality, waste). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

murdãrie (contamination, corruption, defilement, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dishonesty, dung, filth, filthiness, foulness, greasiness, grime, litter, maculation, mess, muck, nastiness, naughty words, ordure, puddle, refuse, rust, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, squalidity), lepãdãturi (riff raff), gunoi (carrion, dirt, dung, garbage, kitchen stuff, litter, manure, mess, muck, refuse, rubbish, scum, soil, waste), drojdia societãţii (ragtag, scum of the society, the dregs of the society). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отбросы (chaff, cheese-parings, dross, filth, garbage, junk, leavings, mullock, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, tailings, throw out, throw-out, waifs and strays, waste). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smeće (garbage, litter, raff, refuse, trash), đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüz karası (black sheep, contempt, crime, ignominy, odium, reproach, scandal), süprüntü (brushing, candle-end, dreg, dregs, dross, garbage, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, sweepings, sweeps, trumpery), pislik (contamination, crap, crud, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, excrement, excreta, faecal matter, faeces, feculence, filth, filthiness, foulness, gook, griminess, impurity, jerk, mess, mire, muck, nastiness, ordure, pollution, scum, scurvy, smear, smut, soil, sordidness, squalor, uncleanliness), bozuntu (old materials, scrap), çerçöp (brushwood, crap, dirt, offal, trash). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OFFSCOURINGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-f-g-i-n-o-o-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: offscouring.

-3 letters: coursings, focussing, scourings.

-4 letters: coursing, crossing, focusing, fourgons, griffons, roofings, rosinous, scoffing, scouring, scuffing, sourcing, sunroofs, surfings.

-5 letters: coffing, coffins, congius, congous, cosigns, cousins, cuffing, cursing, cussing, foisons, forcing, fourgon, frisson, furioso, fusions, fussing, goniffs, griffon, grisons, incross, isogons, offings, orisons, roofing, roosing, rousing, ruffing, runoffs, scoring, scruffs, signors, sorings, souring, sousing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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