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单词 scaffery
释义

scafferyn.

Forms: Also 1500s skafrie, skaif(f)ry, 1600s scafferie.
Etymology: < scaff v.1 or scaffer n.: see -ery suffix.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Extortion; extortionate taking of perquisites.
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the mind > possession > taking > extortion > [noun]
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askingc1400
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scaffery1555
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over-pull1867
Rachmanism1963
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1555 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 500/1 The wemen perturbatouris for skafrie of money or otherwyse salbe [etc.].
1561 Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 335 Na skaiffry, sic as sampill and scheit schakin, to be tane thairof.
1606 Act of Council in Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 616/2 The with-gait and libertie grantit vnto Suche shamefull scafferie and extortioun.
1634 in P. H. Brown Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1904) 2nd Ser. V. 186 For componing..with nombers of thame and taking of compositions frome thame..quilk is a foule coosening scafferie.
a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) III. 662 Lyke as the poorer sort in the burrowes sould not have escaped the importable scafferie intended.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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