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scraffle

scraffle verb: to scramble or struggle; to wrangle.

Verb

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

  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 family1812, Author of the two brothers, Scotch Lawsuits
  2. (UK, dialectal) To be industrious.

scraffle meaning in Bengali

scraffle in Bengali

হামাগুড়ি দেওয়া, সংগ্রাম করা, ঝগড়া করা, পরিশ্রমী হওয়া

Forms of scraffle

third-person singular presentscraffles
present participlescraffling
past participlescraffled
pastscraffled

Origin of scraffle

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

Words that rhyme with scraffle

Questions about scraffle

What does scraffle mean?
Scraffle means to scramble or struggle; to wrangle.
What is scraffle in Bengali?
Scraffle in Bengali is হামাগুড়ি দেওয়া, সংগ্রাম করা, ঝগড়া করা. See Scraffle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is scraffle?
Scraffle is a verb.
What is the past tense of scraffle?
The past tense of scraffle is scraffled.

Words near scraffle in the dictionary

  1. scrabs
  2. Scrabster
  3. scradge
  4. scraffiti
  5. scraffito
  6. scraffle
  7. scraffled
  8. scraffles
  9. scraffling
  10. scrag
  11. scrag end

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scraffle (page history and authors); scraffle (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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