scraight

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English

Verb

scraight (third-person singular simple present scraights, present participle scraighting, simple past and past participle scraighted)

  1. (UK, regional) To cry; to clobber; to conk.
    An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence

Usage notes

The term is used in English Midlands mining communities, normally in the present participle form, and truncated by the dialect pronunciation, so the g is dropped.