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8 letters · 19 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
originFrom scoff + law. Coined simultaneously by Mr Henry Irving Dale and Miss Kate L. Butler for a contest held in Boston in 1923 in which a word for "a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor" was sought during the Prohibition era.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- sclaff 14
- waffs 14
- caffs 13
- cloff 13
- coffs 13
- scaff 13
- scoff 13
- waff 13
- offals 12
- caff 12
- coff 12
- flaws 11