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scraffling

scraffling is the present participle and gerund 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 scraffling

What is scraffling the present participle and gerund of?
Scraffling is the present participle and gerund of scraffle.

Words near scraffling in the dictionary

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

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