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Date "OFFSCOURINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: OFFSCOURINGS |
| Specialty definitions using "OFFSCOURINGS": Dung-gate. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "OFFSCOURINGS": Purgament. (references) |
Expression using "OFFSCOURINGS": the offscourings of humanity. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) 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) 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) smeće (garbage, litter, raff, refuse, trash), đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, junk, laystall, muck, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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