scraughn.
/skrɔːx/, /skrɔː/, U.S. /skrɔ/, /skrɑ/, /skrɔx/, /skrɑx/, Scottish English /skrɔx/ Scottish.
A loud, hoarse cry.
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1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor x, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 247 I blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 104 The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words The scraugh of a heron.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scraughv.
/skrɔːx/, /skrɔː/, U.S. /skrɔ/, /skrɑ/, /skrɔx/, /skrɑx/, Scottish English /skrɔx/ Scottish.
intransitive. To utter a loud hoarse cry.
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1805 A. Scott Poems 15 (Jam.) Thus gaed they on wi' deavin din, A' scraughin, yelpin thro' ither.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 146 And if ye are deaf, what needs ye sit cockit up there, and keep folk scraughin' t'ye this gate?
1831 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae liii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 7 The unhappy somnambulists are scrauching.
Derivatives
ˈscraughing adj. in quot. 1849 harsh guttural.
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1849 R. Curzon Visits to Monasteries Levant iv. vi. 421 My knowledge of his scraughing language did not extend very far.
1897 ‘F. Mackenzie’ Sprays Northern Pine xviii. 231 I carena though I never hear your scrauchin' voice again.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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