Noun: scroyle
| Singular | scroyle |
| Plural | scroyles |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1596, Shakespeare, King John:]
Nouns inflected like scroyle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Old French escrouselle (“a kind of vermin”), escrouelles pl (“scrofula”), French écrouelles, from (assumed) Latin scrofulae. See scrofula, and compare cruels. See: French Nouns '
écrouelles', Latin Nouns '
scrofulae'.