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▪ I. scranny, a.1 Chiefly dial.|ˈskrænɪ|
[Cf. scrannel.]
Lean, thin. Of diet: Poor, meagre.
1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 2) 89 Want! thy confinement makes me scranny. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. 268 Rat... Creeping thro' crevice, and chink, and cranny, With my snaky tail, and my sides so scranny. 1867E. Waugh Owd Blanket iii. 71 Hard wark..an' poor scranny livin'.
▪ II. scranny, a.2 dial.|ˈskrænɪ|
Crazy, wild, ‘silly’.
1858Bailey Age 178 The people must go scranny once a year. 1862J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. Doctors xxiii. 259 His niece's scranny lover. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., Oh, dear! I'm well nigh scranny. The bairns are fit to drive one scranny. |