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▪ I. scran, n. slang and dial.|skræn|
Also skran.
[Of obscure origin; the coincidence with mod.Icel. skran rubbish, odds and ends (Björn Haldorson, 18th c.) is prob. accidental.]
†1. (See quot. 1725.) Obs.
1724in Bacchus & Venus, Collect. Canting Songs (1737) N 2, E'er for the Scran he had tipt the Cole. 1725New Cant. Dict., Scran, a Reckoning at a Boozing-ken.
2. a. A collection of eatables; provisions for a slight repast or picnic; a portion of food carried by a labourer into the field for a meal. Also spec. in Naut. slang, food, rations. cold scran, cold refreshment. b. Broken victuals; rarely, scraps of butchers' meat.
1808Jamieson s.v. Skran, 1. Fine skran, a phrase used by young people when they meet with any thing, especially what is edible, which they consider as a valuable acquisition, S. 2. The offals or refuse of human food, thrown to dogs, Loth. 1826–30T. Wilson Pitman's Pay i. lxxxi. (1843) 14 Se weel she ettles what aw get..That nyen can say we..want for owther claes or scran. 1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 418 Most of the lodging-house keepers buy the ‘scran’ (broken victuals) of the cadgers. 1857‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue, Scran, food. Thieves. 1859Hotten's Slang Dict., Scran, pieces of meat, broken victuals. 1887Kent Gloss., Scran, a snack of food; the refreshment that labourers take with them into the fields. a1892E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 3 But to cart you off suddent to Chawbaconshire and cold scran... I call it 'ard lines. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin i. 8 Them two's on watch now, but they'll be down at eight bells clamourin' for their scran like a lot o' wolves. a1935T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) 135 ‘Scran up!’ he called in his sailor's belling tone against my ear. 1974Sentinel (Ottawa) X. ii. 6/3 He's the chief cook on board, responsible for the preparation and serving of food—or ‘scran’, according to the hands—to 280 hungry mouths about three times a day.
3. Phrase. bad scran to ― ! = ‘bad luck to’. Chiefly Anglo-Irish.
1841Lever Charles O'Malley lxxxv, Bad scram [sic] to me if I wouldn't marry you out of a face this blessed morning just as soon as I'd look at ye. 1867Kennedy Banks Boro xxv. 190 But bad scran to the note they'd give me back.
4. (From the verb.) The action of collecting broken victuals.
1864Hotten's Slang Dict. (1865) s.v. Scran, Scranning or ‘out on the scran’, begging for broken victuals.
5. Comb.: scran bag, (a) a cadger's receptacle for broken victuals; (b) a soldier's haversack; (c) a receptacle for impounded articles negligently left lying about the deck by sailors; hence scran-bag v., to impound (such articles); scran-pock Sc. (see quot.); scran wallet Sc. = scran-bag (a).
1855[Burn] Autobiog. Beggar-boy 17 Your professional pickpocket looks down with contempt upon a knight of the *scranbag. 1864Hotten's Slang Dict. 222 Scran bag, a soldier's Haversack. 1898Tit-Bits 26 Mar. 493/3 The ‘scran⁓bag’ as the sailors term it, is the receptacle for all loose articles of clothing, &c., which are left about the ship by the men. 1903L. Yexley in G. T. Wilson Log of H.M.S. Phaeton p. i, The Scran Bag.
1899F. T. Bullen Way Navy 20 We came to the cells, and, lo! the only prisoner was a ‘bike’, ‘*scran⁓bagged’ and awaiting ransom by its owner.
1825Jamieson Suppl., *Skran-pock. 1. A beggar's wallet..Loth. 2. A bag meant for receiving the spoil or plunder of the dead who may have fallen in battle, when it is gathered by the women who follow the army. S.O. The term was thus explained, at the time of the trial of the Radicals at Falkirk, A. 1819.
1861Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 192 Regardless o' ‘*scran⁓wallat’ watchers, Or vile nefarious beggar catchers.
▪ II. scran, v.|skræn|
[f. scran n.]
1. slang.
a. trans. To provide with ‘scran’ or food.
b. intr. To collect scran or broken victuals.
c1742in Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 527 Tickets to be had for three Megs a Carcass to scran their Pannum-Boxes. 1839in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue (1857) 33 Scranning, begging. [Peculiar to the Scotch.] 1859Hotten's Slang Dict., Scranning, begging for broken victuals.
2. Sc. trans. and intr. (See quots.)
1825Jamieson, Suppl., To Skran, to make a promiscuous collection of things in whatever way, either by fair or by foul means, Edin. 1867W. Gregor Banffsh. Gloss., Skran, to gain; to gather; to catch; as, ‘Fin we're at the Heilan fishan, we're eye skrannin' something’. |