Screever
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Screever is a noun meaning One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
Meaning
One who screeves, or draws with chalks on a pavement or sidewalk.
More Meanings
- A writer of begging letters.
Example Sentences
The Street-Artists—as black profile-cutters, blind paper-cutters, “screevers” or draughtsmen in coloured chalks on the pavement, writers without hands, and readers without eyes.
Such a ‘fakement,’ professionally filled up and put into the hands of an experienced lurker, will bring the ‘amanuensis,’ or ‘screever,’ two guineas at least, and the proceeds of such an expedition have in many cases averaged 60l. per week.
Word Forms
- screevers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include screeder, screed, screeve, scrid, scraugh, cribble.
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