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scrogglings
Mar. 13th, 2009 07:15 amForgotten English Friday!
scrogglings - "The small, worthless apples which are left hanging on the trees after the crop has been gathered; Worcestershire. Scriggins, apples left on a tree after the ingathering; Glocestershire." —James Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
A little digging about finds that both forms as well as "scrigglings" were used in Glocestershire, and a glossary of medieval words also has it (without any identification of region). No etymology found.
Scrogglings!
---L.
scrogglings - "The small, worthless apples which are left hanging on the trees after the crop has been gathered; Worcestershire. Scriggins, apples left on a tree after the ingathering; Glocestershire." —James Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1855
A little digging about finds that both forms as well as "scrigglings" were used in Glocestershire, and a glossary of medieval words also has it (without any identification of region). No etymology found.
Scrogglings!
---L.
