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scraffles

scraffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scraffle.

Meaning of scraffle

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.

Questions about scraffles

What is scraffles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Scraffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scraffle.

Words near scraffles in the dictionary

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

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