scroyle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mean person; a wretch. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

scroyles plural

词源

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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