Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scramble; struggle; hence, to wrangle or quarrel.
- To be busy or industrious.
- To shuffle; use evasion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect To
scramble orstruggle ; towrangle . - verb UK, dialect To be
industrious .
Etymologies
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See scramble: compare OD. schraeffelen to scrape.
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hernesheir commented on the word scraffle
v.i.
To scrape by, struggle; scramble, wrangle; to be industrious.
Cf. references to this word in A Dictionary of North East Dialect
December 30, 2008