SCREED


Meaning of SCREED in English

/ skriːd; NAmE / noun

a long piece of writing, especially one that is not very interesting

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WORD ORIGIN

Middle English : probably a variant of the noun shred . The early sense was fragment cut from a main piece , then torn strip, tatter , which led to (via the notion of a long roll or list) the current sense.

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне.