Word of the Day: SCROYLE


ETYMOLOGY
of unknown origin


EXAMPLE
“…Albius. For fault of a better, Sir.
Tucca. A better; prophane Rascall? I cry thee mercy (my good Scroile?) was’t thou?
Albius. No Harme, Captaine…”

From: Poetaster, or the Arraignment
By Ben Jonson, 1602

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