scraffle

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verb

To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.

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Meanings

verbscraffle (third-person singular simple present scraffles, present participle scraffling, simple past and past participle scraffled)

present singular third person scraffles · participle present scraffling · participle past scraffled · past scraffled

  1. UKdialectalTo 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. UKdialectalTo be industrious.

Origin

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with scraffle

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Anagrams

sclaffer
Cite this entry
APA

scraffle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraffle

MLA

“scraffle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraffle. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scraffle,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraffle.

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