scran

• skran (Scotland)

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.

• (Glasgow, Northern England, especially Manchester, Liverpudlian, Tyneside) IPA^(key): /skɹan/

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• Rhymes: -an

scran (uncountable)

1. (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!

   Let's go and get some food. I'm starving!

   • 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).

2. Refuse; rubbish.

• bad scran to someone
• scrannish
• scrandulous

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

scran (third-person singular simple present scrans, present participle scranning, simple past and past participle scranned)

1. (slang, Liverpudlian, Manchester) to eat

• Carns, cRNAs, carns, crans, crnas, narcs, scRNA, scarn, scrna