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scrippage

scrippage noun: the contents of a scrip, or wallet.

Noun

scrippage (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
    • Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip.1856, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, in Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands, London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 47

Origin of scrippage

From scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare.

Questions about scrippage

What does scrippage mean?
Scrippage means the contents of a scrip, or wallet.
What part of speech is scrippage?
Scrippage is a noun.

Words near scrippage in the dictionary

  1. scripholder
  2. scripholders
  3. scripholding
  4. scripless
  5. scripophily
  6. scrippage
  7. scrips
  8. scripsit
  9. scripsits
  10. script
  11. script doctor

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