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(skroil)

Noun.

[Cf. OF.

escrouselle

a kind of vermin,

escrouelles

, pl., scrofula, F.

écrouelles

, fr. (assumed) LL.

scrofellae

for L.

scrofulae

. See

, and cf.

A mean fellow; a wretch.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Noun.

A mean fellow; a wretch. [Not in use.]

scroyle ‎(plural scroyles)

(obsolete) A mean fellow; a wretch.
- 1596, Shakespeare, King John:
  By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings, / And stand securely on their battlements, / As in a theatre, whence they gape and point / At your industrious scenes and acts of death.