Scourge

I was just checking the exact meaning of a word I was about to grandly sling into some copy... do you think it's fair to describe dog muck as: 'a source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war'?

Yeah, me too.

scourge (skûrj)
n.

1. A source of widespread dreadful affliction and devastation such as that caused by pestilence or war.
2. A means of inflicting severe suffering, vengeance, or punishment.
3. A whip used to inflict punishment.


I did not know about number three.

Interesting.