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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

scraffle en · VERB

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (UK, dialectal) 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 1812, Author of the two brothers, Scotch Lawsuits:
  2. (UK, dialectal) To be industrious.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
scraffling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scraffles Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
scraffled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
scraffled Tense=Past lexicographic