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Where does “scrawed” come from?

scrawed (English) comes from English scraw, from Irish scrath — a turf.

Ancestry of “scrawed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishscrawA sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a...
2Irishscratha turf

Words derived from “scrawed”

  • scrod
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