Masculine
schoft
- (masculine) withers
- (derogatory, masculine) bastard, trash, a person with no moral
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Etymology
The sense of "withers" is ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skuft, from Proto-Germanic *skuftą. The sense of "mean guy" is borrowed from Low German schofft, schufft (“robber knight”), for which see schavuit (“rogue, rascal, crook”).
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