Dictionaries › English

scran

Pronunciation: /skɹan/

The English word “scran” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.
  2. Refuse; rubbish.

verb

  1. To eat.
  2. To steal in a mischievous manner; pinch, nick.

Etymology

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.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “scran” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.