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English
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin, from or cognate with Old Norse skran (“rubbish; marine stores”). Compare Icelandic skran (“junk”), Danish skrammel (“junk, lumber”). Doublet of scrawn.
Pronunciation
Noun
scran (uncountable)
- (UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
- Synonyms: (Geordie) scrawn; see also Thesaurus:food
Let wi gan and get some scran am starvin man!
1853, Charles John Chetwynd Talbot, Meliora, Or, Better Times to Come, page 247:I know there are many persons — some who are themselves poor — who 'never turn a beggar from their door,' but always give them a few browns (halfpence) or some scran (broken victuals).
- Refuse; rubbish.
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Descendants
References
- Frank Graham, editor (1987), “SCRAN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “scran”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
Verb
scran (third-person singular simple present scrans, present participle scranning, simple past and past participle scranned)
- (slang, Liverpool, Manchester, Scotland) To eat.
- (slang, Northern England) To steal in an impish manner; pinch, nick.
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