Origin of scumbag

In our last episode,
,
the lovely and talented Matti Lamprhey
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as "an emissary of Beelzebub", I believe, which I'm now saving ... that he'd originated the word "scumbag" in the 1960s. NSOED says it's US in origin, but fails to date it.[/nq]
MWCD11 dates it to 1967. It seems the sort

[nq:1]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as "an emissary of Beelzebub", I believe, which I'm now saving ... that he'd originated the word "scumbag" in the 1960s. NSOED says it's US in origin, but fails to date it.[/nq]
I thought it was US, too. Slang for a condom. I can provide no citation, however.

In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Lars Eighner
broadcast on alt.usage.english:
[nq:1]MWCD11 dates it to 1967.[/nq]
But they are wrong. It occurs in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) referring to a person:
"... and sneered at the ignorant sonofbitchin bartender. The rotten scumbag. ..."
Thanks to Amazon.com's new context search feature.

La

[nq:2]MWCD11 dates it to 1967.[/nq]
[nq:1]But they are wrong. It occurs in Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) referring to a person: "... and sneered at the ignorant sonofbitchin bartender. The rotten scumbag. ..." Thanks to Amazon.com's new context search feature.[/nq]
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang says it's from the 1920s+ in its condom meaning though Partridge's 8th doesn't mention it, nor 's

[nq:1]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as "an emissary of Beelzebub", I believe, which I'm now saving ... that he'd originated the word "scumbag" in the 1960s. NSOED says it's US in origin, but fails to date it.[/nq]
The files of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang have examples in the 'condom' sense to the 1930s, and referring to a disliked person from 1950

[nq:2]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as ... says it's US in origin, but fails to date it.[/nq]
[nq:1]The files of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang have examples in the 'condom' sense to the 1930s, and referring to a disliked person from 1950 or so.[/nq]
Thanks, Jesse and others. Van H. was obviously as accurate about that matter as he was about all h

[nq:1]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as "an emissary of Beelzebub", I believe, which I'm now saving for my tombstone) claimed yesterday in an interview on BBC News 24 that he'd originated the word "scumbag" in the 1960s.[/nq]
Goes to show it's unwise to believe a fraudster.
Adrian

[nq:2]Nicholas van Hoogstraten (once described by a British judge as ... says it's US in origin, but fails to date it.[/nq]
[nq:1]I thought it was US, too. Slang for a condom. I can provide no citation, however.[/nq]
This book had a word-fight between two women, in which any reader got a great education in horrid names for women. I don't have a copy, but my bet is that "scumbag" could be f

[nq:1]I heard someone use it to mean "used condom," and have since heard it in that sense many times.[/nq]
We used to call those Charles River whitefish.
Related question: Where did the insult "pond scum" come from? It was used by Diane on Cheers ; is it older than that?

John Varela
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[nq:2]I heard someone use it to mean "used condom," and have since heard it in that sense many times.[/nq]
[nq:1]We used to call those Charles River whitefish.[/nq]
A little south of you they were called Long Island White Eels.

Brian Wickham