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Scraffle

verb

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

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

  2. 2
    To be industrious. UK, dialectal

Etymology

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

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