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

The third is—to her coffin; broken down; beggared, perhaps starving, she’ll die surrounded by the offscouring of the earth—happy if she reaches her grave before she has run her full course.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

The offscouring of all London flocked to the Sunday services as to a public entertainment.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Now, of course, we are not about to become the offscouring of the earth by yielding these up to destruction.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

It was, he would insist, the offscouring of the Jinns, and yet Mussulmans did not scruple to put the filth into their mouths and chew and inhale it!

From Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul by Jókai, Mór