offscouring

American  

[awf-skou^uhr-ing, -skou-er-, of-] / ˈɔfˌskaʊər ɪŋ, -ˌskaʊ ər-, ˈɒf- /

noun

1. Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.

2. a social outcast.

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Etymology

Origin of offscouring

1520–30; off + scour ¹ ( def. ), + -ing ¹ ( def. ), after verb phrase scour off

Example Sentences

They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

As to Ursula de Vesc, she detests me much as I detest that offscouring from the dregs of brazen Paris who will meet you at the Chien Noir.

From The Justice of the King by Drummond, Hamilton

Disciple Nevertheless it is very grievous to be generally despised of the World, and to be trampled upon by men as the very offscouring thereof.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob

Where, on the contrary, its exercise is regarded as the badge of dishonor and the vile office of the refuse and offscouring of the race, its largess must be proportionably meagre and scanty.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 by Various

Such doctors are the offscouring of the medical profession.

From Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers by Andrew, Elizabeth Wheeler