scraffle

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English

Etymology

See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (to scrape; sweep; put together).

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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.

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