Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Begging by means of letters, petitions, or the like; writing false or exaggerated accounts of afflictions and privations, in order to receive charity; drawing or writing on the pavements with colored chalks.
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- verb Present participle of
screeve .
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Examples
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The crowd was gathered round a street-artist who was "screeving," or drawing pictures on the pavement in colored chalks.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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For a while Paddy and I stayed on the Embankment, talking, and Bozo gave us an account of the screeving trade.
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He had not earned a penny at screeving, all the pitches under shelter being taken, and for several hours he had begged outright, with one eye on the policemen.
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He had not earned a penny at screeving, all the pitches under shelter being taken, and for several hours he had begged outright, with one eye on the policemen.
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For a while Paddy and I stayed on the Embankment, talking, and Bozo gave us an account of the screeving trade.
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In the few weeks of his apprenticeship to screeving, Jan had improved more quickly than he might have done under such teaching as the Squire had been willing to procure for the village genius.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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A man I knowed was grand at screeving, but he said himself he was nowheres on paper.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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