Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
scrub . - A Middle English form of
scrub .
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Examples
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Shrubb is the same word, and Shropshire is for Anglo-Sax. scrob-scire.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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'from [root] skrabh = to dig, whence scrob-s and scrofa =' the grubber, '
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Personally, I would far rather holiday in Turkey, Bulgaria, or even Moldova (Chisinau is one of Europe's less well discovered cities, but they do a good local dish called 'scrob cu mamaliga'.
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