Silbentrennung
scoff·lawAussprache
Etymologie
[ -"lo ] (noun.) 1924. 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.Quinion, Michael, World Wide Words, http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-sco2.htm