avskrap
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]av (“off”) + skrap (“"scrape", scrapings, scraps”)
Noun
[edit]avskrap n
- scrapings, scraps (waste material, from scraping, or more generally)
- (figuratively) scum, dregs, offscourings (contemptible or worthless people)
- Hon är avskrap
- She is scum
- samhällets avskrap
- the dregs / offscourings of society
- (figuratively) trash, garbage, refuse (the worst of something)
- scrapings (scraped-off material, for example deposited onto something)
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | avskrap | avskraps |
| definite | avskrapet | avskrapets | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |