"scraffle" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: scraffles [present, singular, third-person], scraffling [participle, present], scraffled [participle, past], scraffled [past]
Rhymes: -æfəl Etymology: See scramble. Compare Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|scramble}} scramble, {{cog|dum|schraeffelen|t=to scrape; sweep; put together}} Middle Dutch schraeffelen (“to scrape; sweep; put together”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} scraffle (third-person singular simple present scraffles, present participle scraffling, simple past and past participle scraffled)
  1. (UK, dialect) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-scraffle-en-verb-H352Inmj Categories (other): British English
  2. (UK, dialect) To be industrious. Tags: UK, dialectal
    Sense id: en-scraffle-en-verb-LMBOUc5m Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75

Inflected forms

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