different between scruffle vs scraffle

scruffle

English

Noun

scruffle (plural scruffles)

  1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) A scuffle; a physical fight or struggle.

Verb

scruffle (third-person singular simple present scruffles, present participle scruffling, simple past and past participle scruffled)

  1. (transitive, Britain, dialect, Northern England) To scuffle; to wrestle.

Anagrams

  • scuffler

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scraffle

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æf?l

Verb

scraffle (third-person singular simple present scraffles, present participle scraffling, simple past and past participle scraffled)

  1. (Britain, dialect) To scramble or struggle; to wrangle.
  2. (Britain, dialect) To be industrious.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Anagrams

  • sclaffer

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