scharrel / scharrelen: What does scharrel mean in Dutch?

Scharrelen is what chickens do: wander around and peck at whatever they find. A scharrelkip is a free-range chicken, a scharrelei a free-range egg. And een scharrel is a person you're casually seeing: there's something going on, but nobody is calling it a relationship.

It's the standard answer to is het serieus? (is it serious?): nee, gewoon een scharrel. The verb works for people too: ze scharrelen = they're hooking up, seeing each other, nothing official. In a dating bio, geen scharrels means they want the real thing.