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scraffle

verb

Etymology

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

  1. derived from schraeffelen — “to scrape; sweep; put together”

Definitions

  1. To scramble or struggle

    To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.

    • 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. To be industrious.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scraffle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA