scrip

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɹɪp/

Etymology 1

An aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9

     Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.

   • 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun

     A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —

2. Small change.
   • 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633

     In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.

Etymology 2

Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. A scrap of paper.
2. A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation of subscription receipt.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. A share certificate.

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of prescription.

Noun

scrip (plural scrips)

1. (informal, UK) A medical prescription.

Anagrams

• Crips, crisp