scaffyn.
/ˈskafi/, U.S. /ˈskæfi/, Scottish English /ˈskafɪ/ Scottish colloquial.
A street sweeper; a dustman. Also attributive.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who
mucker1229
raker1327
canel raker?1518
masser-scourer?1518
scavenger1530
sweep-street1553
channel raker1575
broom-man1592
broom-boy1593
gutter-master1607
rake-kennel1707
fulyie man1826
road sweeper1832
crossing-sweeper1841
street orderly1848
orderly1851
scavager1851
scaffy1853
broomer1857
sweep1858
roader1883
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > one who
muckman1569
dustman1707
garbage collector1847
scaffy1853
refuse collector1876
sanitation man1939
garbageologist1940
garbologist1946
binmana1966
trashman1965
dustbinman1969
1853 W. Blair Chrons. Aberbrothock 19 Hecklers, an' wabsters, an' baxters, an' scaffies, an' wives, an' bairns, dowgs an' cats.
1876 J. Smith Archie & Bess 25 Scaffies and leeries crackin' like pea-guns.
1892 W. M. Adamson Betty Blether's Corr. 74 Tin cans intendit for the scaffy cairt.
1918 Kelso Chronicle 1 Nov. 2 She often is too late for the Scaffy Bucket.
1931 J. Hall Holy Man iii. 37 Geordie, the road scavvy, was wearily trundling his little hand-cart up the steep slope of the village street.
1933 J. Gray Lowrie 41 Dere's da scaffy fur takkin awa ony coarn o' bruck an' ess.
1967 Buchan Observer 7 Feb. 2 Not up in the morning early enough to catch the ‘scaffy cairt’.
1978 Scotsman 30 June 10/7 The scaffies are now under the Environmental Health Department.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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