Meaning

2 senses

  1. (UK, dialectal)To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.

  2. (UK, dialectal)To be industrious.

Origin

See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”).

See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”).

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Forms

scraffles, scraffling, scraffled, scraffled
Base formscraffle · to scraffle
3rd person singularscraffles
Present participlescraffling
Past simplescraffled
Past participlescraffled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyscraffle
he, she, itscraffles

Past simpleLesson

all personsscraffled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave scraffled
he, she, ithas scraffled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill scraffle

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scowlscrabblescragglyscrambleB2
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