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5 lettersPronunciation /skɹɪp/Part of speech nounSorted ciprsStarts with SEnds with P0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A certificate or substitute currency accepted for limited payment.

Word origin

From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”), Norwegian skreppa (“bag”). Doublet of scarf.

Used in a sentence

  • Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
  • A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
  • In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.

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