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scroddy, a.|ˈskrɒdɪ|
[Orig. unknown.]
Mean, paltry. (In contemptuous use of amount or condition.) (App. restricted to D. H. Lawrence.)
c1909D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) iii. 63 Now, Beat! (Offering the grapes.)..Go on—have some!.. What a scroddy few! Here, have some more. 1912― in Nation 16 Mar. 982/1 Tha gets 'appen a scroddy twenty-two shillin'. 1912― Let. Oct. (1932) 69 Tell Bunny we don't believe his last scroddy letter was meant for us. |