Definitions for shroffs

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Spelling: [shrof]
IPA: /ʃrɒf/

Shroffs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in shroffs (ffhorss).

Definitions for shroffs

noun

  1. (in India) a banker or money-changer.
  2. (in the Far East, especially China) a native expert employed to test coins and separate the base from the genuine.

verb (used with object)

  1. to test (coins) in order to separate the base from the genuine.

Origin of shroffs

1610-20; earlier sharoffe Portuguese xarrafo, probably Gujarati śaraf Arabic ṣayrāfī moneychanger

Examples for shroffs

If any money stamped by a shroff on examination proved bad, it was exchanged by him, but such cases were extremely rare.

The Red Wand stood by the abacus, rattling the brown beads with flying fingers, like a shroff.

There now remains the shroff, or money dealer, whose services were indispensable, particularly in receipts.

The shroff was very fearful, but as he was to be compradore now, to do the work of a European, he could not show fear.

I can borrow it again from the shroff, just for the present.

He left his affairs in the hands of the shroff, the Chinese accountant, who could be trusted to manage them for a short time.

I think an enterprising tradesman got some of it, and a shroff gobbled the rest—or else I spent it.

They did not ask the shroff, the Chinese accountant, what he thought of it.

Word Value for shroffs
Scrable

15

Words with friends

14

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