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Outcast vs Offscum - What's the difference?

outcast | offscum |

As adjectives the difference between outcast and offscum

is that outcast is that has been cast out; banished, ostracized while offscum is (obsolete) vile; outcast.

As nouns the difference between outcast and offscum

is that outcast is one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah while offscum is refuse; scum.

As a verb outcast

is to cast out; to banish.

outcast

English

Verb

  • To cast out; to banish.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
    • All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
  • * Longfellow
    • Outcast , rejected.

    Noun

    (wikipedia outcast) (en noun)
  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

    • Synonyms

    * (pariah) outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar * See also

    Derived terms

    * social outcast

    Anagrams

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    offscum

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Refuse; scum.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Vile; outcast.
    • the offscum rascals of men