Scrip

Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɹɪp/

An aphetism of Old French escrepe ("purse, alms-bag"), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa.

Full definition of scrip

Noun

1. A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
• 1919, Ronald Firbank, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 9Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
• 1964 Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the SunA 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. —
2. Small change.
• 1899, Edward Everett Hale, The Brick Moon and Other Stories, (Short Story Index Reprint Series), Project Gutenberg, 1999, Etext #1633In 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.

Probably from a conflation of script and scrap.

Noun

1. A scrap of paper.
2. A document certifying possession of land, or in lieu of money.

Abbreviation of subscription receipt.

Noun

1. A share certificate.

Abbreviation of prescription.

Noun

1. (informal, British) A medical prescription.

Anagrams

• Crips, crisp