scuzzball


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scuzz·ball

 (skŭz′bôl′)
n. Slang
A repulsive or disgusting person or thing.
[scuzz, a disgusting person or thing; see scuzzy + ball.]
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In Canada they include: bag of wind, scuzzball, blatherskite, a trained seal, jerk, pig and, bizarrely, a weathervane.
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WE Americans live in a nation where the medical care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporise in seconds if we felt like it.
Lousy Scots..they ruin Scotland Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons; THE INSULTS YOU WON'T SEE IN PARLY THE hunt is on for a fitting quote to mark the 10th anniversary of our Parliament. It will be carved next to 24 musings from the likes of Robert Burns and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Here, HEATHER GREENAWAY finds lines that are more wholly rude than Holyrood
Indeed the passage of time could be measured by the state of their haircuts -Sergeant still lurked on the sidelines beneath a floppy fringe while Mac's once towering hairdo has turned into a bit of a scuzzball lift-job as it chased former glories.
CULTURE : Review: Battered and weather worn, but still defiant; Echo and the Bunnymen Birmingham Academy

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