scraffle

verb — 2 senses

verb

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

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 family1812, Author of the two brothers, Scotch Lawsuits:

UK, Dialectal To be industrious.

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