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)

1. (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

2. (UK, dialect) To be industrious.

References

• “scraffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sclaffer