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scravel

scravel is the alternative form 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.

Forms of scravel

third-person singular presentscravels
present participle USscraveling
present participle UKscravelling
past participle USscraveled
past USscraveled
past participle UKscravelled
past UKscravelled

Questions about scravel

What is scravel the alternative form of?
Scravel is the alternative form of scraffle.

Words near scravel in the dictionary

  1. scraught
  2. scraunch
  3. scraunched
  4. scraunches
  5. scraunching
  6. scravel
  7. scraveled
  8. scraveling
  9. scravelled
  10. scravelling
  11. scravels

Source and license

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