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scran

/skɹan/

Rhymes with -æn

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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.

noun skran

Ireland, UK, slang, uncountable Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub. Let we gan and get some scran. Aw’m starvin man!
Similar: scrawn, aliment, bait, belly-timber, chow, comestibles, cuisine, eatables, eats, edibles, feed, fodder
uncountable Refuse; rubbish.

verb scrans · scranning · scranned · skran

Scotland, slang To eat. 2026 March 28, George Sandeman and Olivia Hutchinson, Tiramisu hot cross buns, doughnut eggs: Have Easter treats gone too far? (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyenwrz23go Creme eggs have been delighting - or not, depending on your palate - British tastebuds for more than 50 years. "I
Northern England, slang To steal in a mischievous manner; pinch, nick.

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@misc{scran_2026,
  title = {scran},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scran},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}