sculchn.
/skʌlʃ/ dialect and U.S.
= culch n. 1, 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Sculsh, rubbish.
1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 236 Here from time to time the men throw into the river what they call ‘skultch’, which an outsider would call rubbish... Of such stuff as this a comfortable bed [for oyster spawn] is made.
1891 M. Cole Cy Ross 38 They dumped the tunnel full of big rock an' sculch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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