scraffle
English edit
Etymology edit
See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -æfəl
Verb edit
scraffle (third-person singular simple present scraffles, present participle scraffling, simple past and past participle scraffled)
- (UK, dialect) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.
- 1812, Author of the two brothers, Scotch Lawsuits:
- he told how he had visited their cousin Margaret in Yorkshire , who was sadly off, scraffling on with a drunken husband and large family
- (UK, dialect) To be industrious.
References edit
- “scraffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.