Noun: scrip
| Singular | scrip |
| Plural | scrips |
Sample Sentences
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Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around. [1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9]
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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. — [1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:]
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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. [1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633]
Nouns inflected like scrip
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
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
scrippe', Old Norse Nouns '
skreppa'.
Verbs referencing "scrip"
Dutch Nouns
scrip.