scroyle

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noun

A mean person; a wretch.

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Meanings

nounscroyle (plural scroyles)

plural scroyles

  1. obsoleteA mean person; a wretch.

    By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death.

    1596, Shakespeare, King John

Origin

Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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