Scroyle (skroil) noun [ Confer Old French escrouselle a kind of vermin, escrouelles , plural, scrofula, French écrouelles , from (assumed) Late Latin scrofellae for Latin scrofulae . See Scrofula , and confer Cruels .] A mean fellow; a wretch. [ Obsol... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/40