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▪ I. scaffy Sc. colloq.|ˈskafɪ|
Also scavvy.
[dim. of scavenger n.]
A street sweeper; a dustman. Also attrib.
1853W. Blair Chron. Aberbrothock 19 Hecklers, an' wabsters, an' baxters, an' scaffies, an' wives, an' bairns, dowgs an' cats. 1876J. Smith Archie & Bess 25 Scaffies and leeries crackin' like pea-guns. 1892W. M. Adamson Betty Blether's Corr. 74 Tin cans intendit for the scaffy cairt. 1918Kelso Chronicle 1 Nov. 2 She often is too late for the Scaffy Bucket. 1931J. Hall Holy Man iii. 37 Geordie, the road scavvy, was wearily trundling his little hand-cart up the steep slope of the village street. 1933J. Gray Lowrie 41 Dere's da scaffy fur takkin awa ony coarn o' bruck an' ess. 1967Buchan Observer 7 Feb. 2 Not up in the morning early enough to catch the ‘scaffy cairt’. 1978Scotsman 30 June 10/7 The scaffies are now under the Environmental Health Department.
▪ II. scaffy
see scaf. |