scraffle

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Definition of scraffle

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

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

“he told how he had visited their cousin Margaret in Yorkshire , who was sadly off, scraffling on with a drunken husband and large family”

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verb

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

“he told how he had visited their cousin Margaret in Yorkshire , who was sadly off, scraffling on with a drunken husband and large family”
(UK, dialectal)To be industrious.

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

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