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scurrile, scurril, a. Now somewhat arch.|ˈskʌrɪl|
Forms: 6–7 scurrill, skurrill, 7 skurrile, scuril, 6– scurrile, scurril.
[a. F. scurrile, † scurrille (14th c.), or ad. L. scurrīlis, f. scurra buffoon.]
= scurrilous.
1567Drant Horace, A.P. B 1, If I, or you the taunting grace can iudge from scurrill gere. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1595) 4 That it containe not base, filthy or scurrile matter. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 148 With him Patroclus..Breakes scurrill Iests. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 43 It had bin plainly partiall..to correct him for grave Cicero, and not for scurrill Plautus. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. ii. ii. (1720) 30 With scurrile Taunts and blackest Infamy They load my Name. 1838–43Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxvii. 479 Scurril songs, and gestures, and clapping of hands, were the only answer returned to him. 1854Trench Synon. xxxiv. 141 Which would attract many..whom scurrile buffoonery would only revolt and repel. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano ii. v. 83 All which full oft she turned to scurril jest.
¶ App. misused for: Rough, rugged, ‘unfriendly’.
1632Lithgow Trav. vi. 262 Wee came to the most scurrile and timorous Discent of the whole passage. Ibid. ix. 423 Wee Coasted the scurrile and Rockey face of Norway. |