offscouring

off·scour·ing

[awf-skouuhr-ing, -skou-er-, of-]
noun
1.
Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
2.
a social outcast.

Origin:
1520–30; off + scouring, after verb phrase scour off

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