C2noun · rare

scavenger

scavenger · scavengers

сорока

падальщик, поглотитель, помоешник

Aasfresser, Spülmittel, Abfalldurchstöberer, Mülldurchstöberer

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful…Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.

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/ˈskæv.ən.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

» I'm on a scavenger hunt.

Ich bin auf einer Schnitzeljagd.

Meaning

5 senses

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things.
garbage scavenger
A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.
Abfalldurchstöberer, Mülldurchstöberer
помо́ешникpomóješnik
someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
An animal that feeds on decaying matter such as carrion.
Vultures are natural scavengers.
Aasfresser
па́дальщикpádalʹščik
any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
(Ireland, UK, historical)A child employed to pick up loose cotton from the floor in a cotton mill.
A substance used to remove impurities from the air or from a solution.
Spülmittel
поглоти́тельpoglotítelʹ
(Ireland, UK, obsolete)A street sweeper.

Examples

8 sentences

I'm on a scavenger hunt.
deIch bin auf einer Schnitzeljagd. — Yorwba
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Lions are scavengers, among other things.
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Tom and Mary organized a scavenger hunt.
deTom und Mary organisierten eine Schnitzeljagd. — belvedere
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Carlos's friends had a scavenger hunt at the party.
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I'm organizing a scavenger hunt for my son's thirteenth birthday party.
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Translations

7 languages

Русский

By meaning 3

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things:

animal feeding on decaying matter:

substance to remove impurities:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

Someone who scavenges, especially one who searches through rubbish for food or useful things:

animal feeding on decaying matter:

substance to remove impurities:

Origin

Originally from Middle English scavager, from Anglo-Norman scawageour (“one who had to do

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. See also messenger and passenger.

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