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offscum

Meaning of "offscum" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF OFFSCUM

ˈɒfˌskʌm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OFFSCUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Offscum is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OFFSCUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of offscum in the English dictionary

The definition of offscum in the dictionary is refuse or waste which is removed by skimming off.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OFFSCUM

become · come · cum · downcome · forthcome · income · lower-income · misbecome · newcome · oncome · outcome · overcome · owrecome · scum · succumb · unovercome · upcome

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OFFSCUM

offline · offprint · offput · offsaddle · offscourings · offset · offset blanket · offset lithography · offset paper · offset press · offset printing · offset sheet · offsetable · offshoot · offshore · offshoring · offside · offsider · offspring · offstage

WORDS THAT END LIKE OFFSCUM

capsicum · cecum · colchicum · guaiacum · hypericum · Illyricum · locum · modicum · molluscum · Noricum · pax vobiscum · pond scum · practicum · talcum · taraxacum · tillicum · triticum · vade mecum · verbascum · viscum

Synonyms and antonyms of offscum in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «offscum» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OFFSCUM

Find out the translation of offscum to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of offscum from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «offscum» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

offscum
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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offscum
570 millions of speakers
en

English

offscum
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

offscum
380 millions of speakers
ar

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offscum
280 millions of speakers
ru

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offscum
278 millions of speakers
pt

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offscum
270 millions of speakers
bn

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offscum
260 millions of speakers
fr

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offscum
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Offscum
190 millions of speakers
de

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offscum
180 millions of speakers
ja

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offscum
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

offscum
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Offscum
85 millions of speakers
vi

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offscum
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

offscum
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ऑफस्कॅम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

offscum
70 millions of speakers
it

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offscum
65 millions of speakers
pl

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offscum
50 millions of speakers
uk

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offscum
40 millions of speakers
ro

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offscum
30 millions of speakers
el

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offscum
15 millions of speakers
af

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offscum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

offscum
10 millions of speakers
no

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offscum
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of offscum

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFSCUM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about offscum

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFFSCUM»

Discover the use of offscum in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to offscum and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introduction to the literature of Europe: in the fifteenth, ...
v. p. 199., is a fair and favourable specimen of Aleman as a moralist, who is however apt to be tedious, as moralists usually are : — " The poor man is a kind of money that is not current, the subject of every idle housewife's chat, the offscum of ...
Henry Hallam, 1847
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Bentley's Miscellany
I hope, sir," said Mr. Cumberstone, with a flushed face and a quivering lip, " you don't mean to assert that the offscum of society contained within the walls of a county gaol — the burglar, the highwayman, the thief, the incendiary, are my— ...
Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith, 1843
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A Dictionary in English and Bengalee; Translated from Todd's ...
মরলা দুব্যমার্জাকরণেতে পতিত বা নির্গত ম সা বা ২র্টুড়া | > Offscum, 11- মরনা. মনা. হর্টু'ড়া. অধমাদ্ৰশ. ত্যক্তা০\শ | Offset, n. ৪. অঙ্কর. (ফকন্ডি | ' Ofi'spring, n. s. °Sax . জন্মমে' উৎণত্তি. পুসব.' বশিংশ', কুল, (গর্তৃর্তী, সম্ভান সন্ততি. জনিত বা উগেন্ন বন্তু.
Ram-Comul Sen, 1834
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Fazio: A Tragedy
They're all lies : Things done within some far and distant planet, Or offscum of some dreamy poet' s brain, All tales of human goodness. ' Or they're legends Left us of some good old forgotten time, Ere harlotry became a queenly sin, And ...
Henry Hart Milman, 1818
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A New Account of East India and Persia...
Among this Offscum r left to upbraid their Predecessors, are placed the Armenians, who are forced to comply to an over-ruling Fare, out of the same necessity that attends the Chance of War, but with a better reserve to their Virtue, which is not ...
John Fryer, 1698
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Fazio, Or The Italian Wife: Tragedy in Five Acts
They're all lies : Things done with in some far and distant planet, Or offscum of some dreamy poet's brain, All tales of human goodness ! Or they're legends Left us of some good old forgotten time, Ere harlotry became a queenly sin, And ...
Henry Hart Milman, 1846
7
specimens of english dramatic poets, who lives about the ...
The poor man is a kind of money that is not current ; the subject of every idle huswife's chat ; the offscum of the people ; the dust of the street, first trampled under foot and then thrown on the dunghill ; in conclusion, the poor man is the rich ...
charles lamb, 1857
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The Poetical Works of Milman, Bowles, Wilson and Barry ...
They 're all lies: Things done within some far and distant planet, Or offscum of some dreamy poet's brain, All tales of human goodness. Or they 're legends Left us of some good old forgotten time, Ere harlotry became a queenly sin, And housed ...
Henry Hart Milman, William Lisle Bowles, John Wilson, 1829
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An English-Welsh pronouncing dictionary: with an analysis of ...
... wch; gweinyddiaeth; negesgarwch; try- bestyd ; trybestod ; ymyraeth ; rhodres Offing, off '-fling, s môr yn ngolwgstir, arfor Offscouring, off'-scôr-ing,s.sorod; ysgub- ion, ysgarthion, ysprëd, yshwrial, ffilcas Offscum ...
Thomas Edwards, 1864
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A Complete English-Latin and Latin-English Dictionary
Officious, a. Officiosus, Cic. ; olisequiosus, Plaut. Officiously, ad. Omciose ; benigne ; comiter ; bénévole ; Cic. Opfscourino. s. Lotura, Plin. Offscum. s. Fsbx, Cic. ; crassamen ; crassamentum. Col. Offset. s. Regermlnans coliculus. Offspring , s. pi.
Joseph Esmond Riddle, 1870

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFFSCUM»

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Garbage treatment: turning waste into treasure
After treatment and recycling, classified waste can be used again: food waste to become fertilizer and to produce biogas, offscum to pave roads, ... «Xinhua, Jul 10»
REFERENCE
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