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

We are made as it were the filthiness of the world, the offscouring of all things, even unto this time.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

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

Had we been strangers to this offscouring of a thousand miles of beach, swirling past us at a six-mile gait, we might well have doubted the prudence of launching little Pilgrim upon such a sea.

From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Truly, as says the apostle, we are the offscouring of the earth, and we now stink in the nostrils of the men of the world.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn