scranとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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.

発音

• (Glasgow, Northern England, especially Manchester, Liverpool, Geordie) IPA: /skɹan/
• 韻: -æn

名詞

scran (uncountable)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.

   Synonyms: (Geordie) scrawn; see also Thesaurus:food

   Let we gan and get some scran. Aw’m 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.

派生語

• bad scran to someone
• scrannish

派生した語

• → Welsh: sgram

参照

• 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.

動詞

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

1. (slang, Liverpool, Manchester, Scotland) To eat.
2. (slang, Northern England) To steal in an impish manner; pinch, nick.

アナグラム

• crans, narcs, Carns, cRNAs, carns, Crans, scRNA