oomska

English

Etymology

Perhaps a pig Latin form of scum.

Noun

oomska (uncountable)

1. (slang) Filth, dirt.
   • 1986, Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I (screenplay):

     You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without Wellingtons?

   • 2011 March 5, Caitlin Moran, “I'm so tired by TV journeys”, in The Times:

     Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates was put to work on the latrine-wagon – ladling liquid, roiling oomska from latrines shared by a thousand people a day.