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Scooper vs Scourge - What's the difference?

scooper | scourge |

As nouns the difference between scooper and scourge

is that scooper is a person who scoops while scourge is (uncountable) a source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

As a verb scourge is

to strike with a scourge , to flog.

scooper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who scoops.
  • Something that scoops.
  • The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.

    • Synonyms

    * (something that scoops) scoop

    Derived terms

    * pooper-scooper

    Anagrams

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    scourge

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.
  • A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
    • , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • A whip, often of leather.
  • * Chapman
    • Up to coach then goes / The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.

    Verb

  • To strike with a scourge , to flog.

    • See also

    * (pedia)