Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scrippage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scrip-page
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The contents of a scrip, or wallet.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage."
"I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip."
"The proposition was unrefusable. So with post-haste I packed scrip and scrippage, settled my small literary, household and farming affairs, and […] quitted my Suffolk farm en route for Marseilles […]"

Etymology

From scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: scrip

Usage

Questions

What does scrippage mean?: The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
Where does scrippage come from?: From scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare.

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