Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scroyle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scroyle
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mean person; a wretch.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death."

Etymology

Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

scroyles (plural)

Questions

What does scroyle mean?: A mean person; a wretch.
Where does scroyle come from?: Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels.

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