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scroyles

scroyles is the plural of scroyle.

Meaning of scroyle

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

Questions about scroyles

What is scroyles the plural of?
Scroyles is the plural of scroyle.

Words near scroyles in the dictionary

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

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