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scroyle

The English word “scroyle” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A mean person; a wretch.

Etymology

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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