oomska
English
editEtymology
editPerhaps a pig Latin form of scum.
Noun
editoomska (uncountable)
- (slang) Filth, dirt.
- 1986, Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I (screenplay):
- You mean you've been up here in all this beastly mud and oomska without Wellingtons?
- 2011 March 5, Caitlin Moran, “I'm so tired by TV journeys”, in The Times:
- Radio 1 DJ Reggie Yates was put to work on the latrine-wagon – ladling liquid, roiling oomska from latrines shared by a thousand people a day.
- 1986, Bruce Robinson, Withnail & I (screenplay):