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scaffy

noun

Etymology

From scavenger (“street sweeper”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).

  1. derived from scauwōn — “to inspect, to examinate, to look at”
  2. derived from *scavage✻
  3. derived from *scawage✻
  4. derived from scawageour — “one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”
  5. inherited from scavager
  6. suffixed as scaffy — “scavenger + y”

Definitions

  1. A street sweeper

    A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector.

    • The scaffies were out, hosing down the pavement. I liked the aura of early morning – it felt like the end of the world, which suited my mood.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scaffy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA