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scavenger

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15
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19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/ (UK)

Definition of scavenger

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
    “garbage scavenger”
    “A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.”
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noun

  1. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
    “garbage scavenger”
    “A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.”
  2. An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
    “Vultures are natural scavengers.”
  3. (Ireland, UK, obsolete)A street sweeper.
  4. (Ireland, UK, historical)A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
  5. A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

verb

  1. (archaic)To scavenge.
  2. (archaic)To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

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Etymology

Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration…

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Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.

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