scrippage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
scrip + -age; probably coined by Shakespeare.
Noun[edit]
scrippage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) The contents of a scrip, or wallet.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.
- 1856, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, in Tracings of Iceland and the Faröe Islands[1], London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, page 47:
- I soon found I should be knocked entirely to pieces by the graze and jam of the boxes and scrippage, as the tide of carrier-ponies crushed past me, if I did not look sharply out and warn them off with my whip.
- 1912, Matilda Betham-Edwards, chapter 1, in In French-Africa: Scenes and Memories[2], London: Chapman and Hall, page 4:
- The proposition was unrefusable. So with post-haste I packed scrip and scrippage, settled my small literary, household and farming affairs, and […] quitted my Suffolk farm en route for Marseilles […]
References[edit]
- “scrippage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.