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schofel

schofel is the alternative form of shoful.

Meaning of shoful

Noun

shoful (countable and uncountable, plural shofuls)

  1. (UK, countable, obsolete, slang) A Hansom cab.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang, uncountable) Counterfeit money.
    • To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2

Questions about schofel

What is schofel the alternative form of?
Schofel is the alternative form of shoful.

Words near schofel in the dictionary

  1. schoenus
  2. schoepite
  3. Schoeppner
  4. Schoettle
  5. Schoettles
  6. schofel
  7. Schoff
  8. Schoffs
  9. Schoffstall
  10. Schoffstalls
  11. Schofield

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schofel (page history and authors); shoful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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