scraffle
English
Etymology
See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æfəl
Verb
scraffle (third-person singular simple present scraffles, present participle scraffling, simple past and past participle scraffled)
- (Britain, dialectal) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.
- (Britain, dialectal) To be industrious.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scraffle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- sclaffer