The Collaborative International Dictionary
Offscouring \Off"scour`ing\, n. [Off + scour.]
That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter;
that which is vile or despised.
--Lam. iii. 45.
Wiktionary
n. 1 refuse removed from something by scouring 2 (context figuratively English) An outcast, a pariah.
Usage examples of "offscouring".
The Fuwalda, a barkentine of about one hundred tons, was a vessel of the type often seen in coastwise trade in the far southern Atlantic, their crews composed of the offscourings of the sea--unhanged murderers and cutthroats of every race and every nation.
In their naive form, millenarian movements may appear as isolated rustlings among oppressed or displaced people, the offscourings of society, flea-ridden and illiterate.
But, so far from being exterminated, the individual members were merely scattered north, south, east, and west, each forming a nucleus around which gathered and clustered the very worst of the offscouring of humanity.
And everywhere the young man looked, in every nook and crevice, there was rubbish, junk, litter, rags, odds and ends, trash, offscourings, tares, waste, rubble, debris and dregs.