Talk:Scourge/@comment-38926561-20190408001715/@comment-30076690-20190408040526

yes. not entirely sure who came up with that bit of trivia...

a scourge is a thing that causes trouble/death/pain/whatever. I don't think there's a verb form, but i could be wrong.

and now i'm confused why google has this whip thing as the first definition when i've never heard of it before. Scourge is almost always used as a noun as a variable person or thing that causes suffering, not some whip.