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From scavenger (“street sweeper”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector. Full definition →
Today it means: A street sweeper; a dustman, a refuse collector. Full definition →
From scavenger (“street sweeper”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.