Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who writes begging letters, or draws colored-chalk pictures on the pavements.
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Examples
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I'd never encountered the term "screever" until I was getting ready for a trip to Europe.
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At that time there was a screever almost every twenty-five yards along the Embankment — twenty-five yards being the recognized minimum between pitches.
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Bozo contemptuously pointed out an old white-bearded screever fifty yards away.
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He returned to England, spent his money in looking for jobs, tried hawking books in Middlesex Street market, then tried selling toys from a tray, and finally settled down as a screever.
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He seemed a very unusual screever, and he was, moreover, the first person I had heard maintain that poverty did not matter.
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The hurdy-gurdy player and the penny jester: the cheap john and the screever.
Downtown Dinnage, Rosemary 1978
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He returned to England, spent his money in looking for jobs, tried hawking books in Middlesex Street market, then tried selling toys from a tray, and finally settled down as a screever.
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So I had a pint, and since that day Ive been a screever.
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He seemed a very unusual screever, and he was, moreover, the first person I had heard maintain that poverty did not matter.
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Bozo contemptuously pointed out an old white-bearded screever fifty yards away.
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