scavenger

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
2. An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
3. (Ireland, UK, obsolete) A street sweeper.
4. (Ireland, UK, historical) A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
5. A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.

Verb

1. (archaic) To scavenge.
2. (archaic) To clean the rubbish from a street, etc.

Concepten

aasvretend

straatveger

aaseter

jutter

Synoniemen

sweeper

cleaner

pack rat

necrophage

magpie

forager

freeloader

garbage collector

garbage man

predator

street sweeper

sweep

washer

junk dealer

refuse collector

depurant

street-sweeper

streetcleaner

latrine-cleaner

purifying agent

buildings

scavenging machine

cleanser

clearer

collector

dustman

Vertalingen

Aasfresser

nécrophage

charognard

carroñero

necrófago

Spülmittel

basurero

necrófago

Lethrinus variegatus

سكافينجر

Straßenkehrer

saprofago

detritívoro

kimse

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: scavager

Verwant aan Oudengels: sċēawung

Verwant aan Nederlands: schouwing

In summary

Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do with scavage, inspector, tax collector”), from Old Northern French *scawage, escauwage (“scavage”), Old French *scavage, escavage, alteration of escauvinghe (compare Medieval Latin scewinga, sceawinga), from Old Dutch scauwōn (“to inspect, to examinate, to look at”). Usually reinterpreted/re-analysed today as scavenge (which was originally a backformation from this word) + -er. Compare Old English sċēawung (“a showing, spectacle, examination, inspection, toll on exposure of goods”) and Dutch schouwing (“inspection”). More at show.