screed
noun/skriːd/
/skriːd/
- a long piece of writing, especially one that is not very interestingWord OriginMiddle 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.
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