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screeving

screeving is the present participle and gerund of screeve.

Meaning of screeve

Verb

screeve (third-person singular simple present screeves, present participle screeving, simple past and past participle screeved)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) To write.
  2. (UK, obsolete, slang) To draw with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
  3. (UK, obsolete, slang) To write begging letters.

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Questions about screeving

What is screeving the present participle and gerund of?
Screeving is the present participle and gerund of screeve.

Words near screeving in the dictionary

  1. screeve
  2. screeved
  3. screever
  4. screevers
  5. screeves
  6. screeving
  7. screlt
  8. screlted
  9. screlting
  10. screlts
  11. Scremerston

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Adapted from Wiktionary: screeving (page history and authors); screeve (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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