scrip
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”).
Noun
scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)
- A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
- Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
- A night promising fair, scented, the moon in her third quarter, nightingales in the wood, WS, in worn cloak against the morning’s chill, empty scrip and purse, taking the road. —
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9
- (archaic) Small change.
- 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633
- In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.
- 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, [1999], Etext #1633
Etymology 2
Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.
Noun
scrip (countable and uncountable, plural scrips)
- A scrap of paper.
- A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.
- A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system; chit.
- Any substitute for legal tender that is produced by a natural person or private legal person and is often a form of credit.
Etymology 3
Abbreviation of subscription receipt.
Noun
scrip (plural scrips)
- A share certificate.
Etymology 4
Abbreviation of prescription.
Noun
scrip (plural scrips)
- (informal, British, US) A medical prescription.
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English scrip, clipping of subscription receipt.
Pronunciation
Noun
scrip m (plural scrips)
- scrip (share certificate)
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