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scroyle

scroyle noun: a mean person; a wretch.

Noun

scroyle (plural scroyles)

  1. (obsolete) A mean person; a wretch.
    • By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death.1596, Shakespeare, King John

Forms of scroyle

pluralscroyles

Origin of scroyle

Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.

Questions about scroyle

What does scroyle mean?
Scroyle means a mean person; a wretch.
What part of speech is scroyle?
Scroyle is a noun.
What is the plural of scroyle?
The plural of scroyle is scroyles.

Words near scroyle in the dictionary

  1. scrowler
  2. scrowlers
  3. scrowling
  4. scrowls
  5. scrows
  6. scroyle
  7. scroyles
  8. SCRP
  9. SCRs
  10. scrub
  11. scrub ash

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