Dictionary: SCR – SCRD

• SCRAB
n. 1. the crab-apple or wild apple …1467-8 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 2. a stunted or shrivelled tree or shrub; a root; a stump of heather …1790 Sc.
n. 3. a thin, shrivelled limb or finger …1866 Sc.
n. 4. an undergrown, sickly, scraggy animal; poor meat …1870 Sc.
n. 5. a puny, shrivelled person …B1900 Sc.
n. 6. anything stunted, gnarled, or shrivelled …B1900 Sc.
n. 7. a scratch …B1900 N. Ireland
vb. 1. to scratch, scrape, claw …1481 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to erase …1890 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to grab, to snatch; to steal …1890 obs. exc. Eng. dial.

• SCRAB-APPLE
n. a fir cone …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRABBER
n. who snatches, grabs, or takes by force …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRABBIE
adj. stunted, gnarled, shrivelled …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRABBLE
n. 1. a puny, shrivelled person …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a scramble, a contest in gathering things up from the ground on hands and knees …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a scratching …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a scribbling …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a small, scraggy animal …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 6. a stunted tree or shrub; thorns and briers …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 7. a thin, shrivelled limb …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 8. crack cocaine …2003 UK drug culture sl.
vb. 1. to crawl about on hands and knees; to scramble; to climb; to procure with difficulty …1864 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch, to paw; to make clutching movements with the hands; to make a scratching noise …1888 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to scribble, to scrawl …1889 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to disagree; to quarrel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to struggle on …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRABBLE TOWN
n. the part of a town where the poorer people, special groups, or foreign groups live …1968 Amer. dial.

• SCRADE
n. a scold …1790 Eng. dial. obs.

• SCRADEEN
n. a diminutive, worthless fellow …1867 Ireland

• SCRADGE
n. food …2003 Antarctica usage

• SCRADYIN
n. a puny, sickly child …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRADYINS
n. small potatoes …Bk1904 N. Ireland

• SCRAE
adj. spare, meagre, lean …1846 Sc.
n. 1. a shoe, esp. one that is old and shrivelled…1721 Sc.
n. 2. a thin, skinny person or animal; anything thin and shrivelled; a skeleton …1802 Sc.
n. 3. a crowd, multitude, swarm …1899 Sc.
n. 4. an ill-natured, fault-finding person …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRAE-SHANKIT
adj. having long, slender legs …1822 Sc.

• SCRAFFLE
n. 1. a scramble, a struggle …1781 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a disturbance, a quarrel, an affray ..1790 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a struggle for a livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to withdraw unfairly from an engagement or bargain …1781 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to struggle; to force one’s way with difficulty; to scramble; to creep, to roll; to tumble …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to work hard with small success; to struggle for a living; to be industrious …1856 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to quarrel, to wrangle, to dispute …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to shuffle …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to throw anything to be scrambled for …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAFFLEHORN
n. a worthless fellow relying on shifts and expedients …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAFFLES
n. an empty boaster; a rascal …1808 Eng. dial.

• SCRAFFLIN
n. a rascal …1858 Eng. dial.

• SCRAFTY
vb. to throw coins or nuts among children to be scrambled for …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAG
adj. 1. prickly, rough …1876 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. useless, inferior …1892 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a scrawny or scruffy-looking person or animal; a term of derogation for a person …1845 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a crooked, forked branch of a tree; a broken bough …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a ghost …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 4. offal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. an immoral woman …1969 Amer. dial.
n. 6. a stunted bush or tree; a standing dead tree …1975 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to hit repeatedly; to assault by hitting …1835 sl.
vb. 2. to manhandle someone roughly …1835 sl.
vb. 3. to seize by the neck; to throttle; to break the neck …1884 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to kill deliberately; to murder someone …1930 US sl.

• SCRAG-CAUF
n. a woman with thin legs …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGE
vb. to graze …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAG-END
n. the worst part of anything …1858 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGELT
n. a worthless fellow …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.

• SCRAGGEN
adj. straggling …1870 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGINS
n. small potatoes …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGLE
vb. 1. to scramble …1851 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to walk with difficulty; to bend the legs stiffly; to become stiff; to crawl about feebly, as a sick man …1898 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGLING
adj. 1. scattered, straggling …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. wild, untidy, disorderly, generally applied to vegetation …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGLINGFROST
n. a very slight frost …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGLY
adj. thin, scraggy …1900 Eng. dial.

• SCRAGGY
adj. 1. rawboned, strong …1790 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. shaggy …1851 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. spare, small, thin …1856 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. shabby …1946 US

• SCRAGGY LOU
n. influenza …1992 UK rhyming sl. for ‘flu’

• SCRAG-PIECE
n. a term of contempt for a person …1879 Eng. dial.

• SCRAIGHER
n. one who screams, or makes a loud, discordant sound …1824 Sc.

• SCRAIGHTON
n. a person fond of screaming …1824 Sc. obs.

• SCRAIL
n. a thin, lean animal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAILY
adj. thin, attenuated …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRALLION
n. a thin, scraggy man or animal …1888 Eng. dial.

• SCRALLYBOB
n. a louse …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAM
adj. 1. awkward, clumsy …1825 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. benumbed; withered; stiff, cramped …1825 Eng. dial.
adj. 3. small, puny; contemptible …1842 Eng. dial.
n. 1. the hard rind of bacon or cheese …1881 Eng. dial.
n. 2. scum, refuse …1888 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a Black person …1940 US sl.
n. 4. a hasty or unceremonious departure …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to benumb, to make stiff with cold; to paralyze; to disable by disease or accident …1777 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to crush, to squeeze …1885 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to search about for what can be picked up; to search with slight hope of success …1895 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. of food: to stuff, to cram …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to leave quickly .,..1928 US

• SCRAMB
vb. 1. to pull or rake together with the hands; to gather a handful of anything from the ground …1781 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 2. to pull down violently; to tear off; to maul about …1892 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to scratch with the nails or claws …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAM BAG
n. in circus and carnival usage: a suitcase that is always packed in the event that a hasty departure has become the prudent course of action …1981 US sl.

• SCRAMBLE
n. 1. a rapid operational take-off by a group of aircraft …1940 sl.
n. 2. a hasty or unceremonious departure …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. 3. in motorcycle racing: a race in difficult terrain …1965 US sl.
n. 4. a potluck supper …1968 Amer. dial.
n. 5. adulterated heroin …1984 US drug culture sl.
n. 6. crack cocaine …1994 US drug culture sl.
vb. 1. to throw down anything to be scrambled for …1851 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to collect; to pull or rake together with the hands …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to make a rapid operational take-off …1940 Air Force sl.
vb. 4. to depart hurriedly …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 5. to intoxicate; to make dead drunk …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 6. to sell drugs …1980s Amer. teen sl.
vb. 7. to live hand-to-mouth by a variety of hustles …1989 US sl.

• THE SCRAMBLE
n. the chaotic movement of pedestrians as soon as traffic lights permit …1984 Aust. sl.

• SCRAMBLE-BRAIN
adj. foolish; silly; witless …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAMBLEBRAINED
adj. bewildered; confused; muddled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAMBLED
adj. bewildered; confused; muddled …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAMBLED BRAINS
n. stupidity …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAMBLED EGG
n. the gold braid or insignia on an officer’s dress uniform …1943 sl., mainly services’ usage

• SCRAMBLED EGGS
n. 1. senior officers …World War II Amer. services’ sl.
n. 2. a double daffodil …1978 Amer. dial.

• SCRAMBLE DINNER
n. a potluck supper …1972 Amer. dial.

• SCRAMBLE SUPPER
n. a potluck supper …1972 Amer. dial.

• SCRAMBLINGS
n. scraps of broken meat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMBOLA
n. a hasty or unceremonious departure …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAME
n. a scream …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAM-HAND
n. a withered hand …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMMAGE
n. a scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMMEL
n. a lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMMISH
n. a scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMMY
adj. cramped, confined …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMP
n. a snatching; a hurried attempt …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to cramp, to pinch; to stint of food, money, etc. …1880 Sc.
vb. 2. to scrape together; to collect with difficulty …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to stretch forth the hands to grasp; to snatch at, to seize, to clutch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to throw articles among a crowd to be scrambled for …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMPING
n. contention; eager strife to obtain anything …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMS
n. scraps of meat …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMSH
n. a scramble …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to scramble; to throw anything to be scrambled for …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAMSKEE
n. a hasty or unceremonious departure …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAMSVILLE
n. desertion, running off …1950s sl.

• SCRAN
adj. wild …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. payment for food at an inn …18C sl.
n. 2. food, provisions, victuals, esp. inferior or scrappy food …1801 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. ability; means of effecting a purpose …1806 Sc.
n. 4. a scrap, a morsel; remainder; refuse …1851 Eng. dial.
n. 5. earnings, wages …1869 Eng. dial.
n. 6. service rations …1916 naval sl.
vb. 1. to collect scraps of food to make up a meal …M18 sl.
vb. 2. to provide with food …M18 sl.
vb. 3. to eat …1990s sl.
vb. 4. to gather together; to collect in any way; to get hold of; to gain, to catch …1873 Sc.

• SCRANATION
n. a small bit of anything …1884 Eng. dial.

• SCRAN-BAG
n. 1. a beggar’s receptacle for the scraps of food they solicit …M19 sl.
n. 2. any form of bag into which bits of food can be placed …M19 sl.

• SCRANCH
n. 1. a sharp, grinding noise; the noise made by crunching anything …1881 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a mark or scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to crush or grind with a sharp, grating noise; to grind between the teeth; to crunch, to eat noisily …1777 Sc. & Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch …1863 Eng. dial.

• SCRAN’D
adj. of the skin: chapped …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAND
n. food, esp. various bits of food, leftovers, broken victuals, etc. thrown together for an impromptu meal, or a meal taken onto their job by a labourer …E18 sl.

• SCRANEL
n. a morsel …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRANGE
n. a deep scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to inflict a deep scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRANK
adj. 1. lank, lean, ill-formed, slender …1846 Sc.
adj. 2. of writing: thin, sprawling …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 1. a coarse-featured person …Bk1904 Sc.
n. 2. a lean, slender person …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to make ill-formed, sprawling letters; to write in a scrawling hand …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRANKIT
adj. shrunken, diminutive …1854 Eng. dial.

• SCRANKS
n. of writing: badly-formed letters …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRANKY
adj. 1. empty …1800 Sc. obs.
adj. 2. lean, lank, thin, scraggy; withered, wrinkled …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. of writing: thin, ill-formed …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRANNEL
adj. 1. lean, thin; poor, worthless …1857 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. of the voice: weak, piping, thin …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a thin, spare-looking person or animal …1854 Eng. dial.
vb. to eat greedily; to swallow up …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRANNING
n. begging for scraps of food …M19 Sc.

• SCRANNISH
adj. hungry …1890 Eng. dial.

• SCRANNY
adj. 1. scanty or of inferior quality; poor …1867 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 2. thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled …1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.
adj. 3. ill-tempered …1881 Eng. dial.
adj. 4. mean, niggardly …1884 Eng. dial.
adj. 5. crazy, mad, distracted; simple, foolish; bewildered …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 1. food, esp. various bits of food, leftovers, broken victuals, etc. thrown together for an impromptu meal, or a meal taken onto their job by a labourer …E18 sl.
n. 2. an ill-natured, wrinkled old woman …1824 Sc.
n. 3. a scramble …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a thin, meagre person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to scramble, to strive, to contend …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRANNY-LOOKING
adj. thin, meagre, scraggy; withered, wrinkled …1878 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• SCRAN-POCKET
n. a beggar’s receptacle for the scraps of food they solicit …M19 sl.

• SCRANT
vb. to scorch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAN-TIME
n. meal-time …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAP
adj. curt, sharp in speech …1885 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a fight, a tussle, a skirmish …1846
n. 2. a quarrel …1890
vb. 1. to gather together; to pick up …1810 Sc. obs.
vb. 2. to burn, to scorch …1867 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to box …1874 sl.
vb. 4. to bow, to make obeisance …1883 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to crackle by fire or by weight …1885 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to fight, to quarrel …1895
vb. 7. to scrape, to scratch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to snap; to break off suddenly with a noise …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAP AND SCREED
n. every particle, everything …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE
n. 1. a bow, an obeisance …1740 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a shave …1879 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 3. a bare place on a steep hillside or bank …1894 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a miser; a greedy, avaricious person …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 1. to shave …1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to bow mowing the foot, to make obeisance …1856 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to express scorn and derision …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 4. to scramble; to reach out awkwardly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE-ALL
n. 1699 obs. – a miserable wretch or griping fellow; a miser

• SCRAPE ALONG
vb. to survive; to carry on; to get by …1884 Amer. sl.

• SCRAPE BY
vb. to survive; to carry on; to get by …1884 Amer. sl.

• SCRAPE-DAYTIONS
n. a careful, miserly person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE-DISH
n. a careful, miserly person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE-FIRE
n. a flintlock firearm …1917 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPEGALLOWS
n. a scoundrel, a rascal …1946 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPEGOAT
n. a scapegoat …1955 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPE-GOOD
adj. miserly, stingy, avaricious …a1693 obs.
n. a miser, a niggard, a covetous person …1611 obs.

• SCRAPE-HARD
n. a miser …Bk1904 Sc.

• A SCRAPE OF THE PEN
n. a few lines, a letter, writing …1844 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE ONE’S BUTTONS
vb. to challenge one to a fight …1896 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE-PENNY
n. one who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; an avaricious or penurious person; a miserly, stingy person; a niggard …1584 obs.

• SCRAPER
n. 1. a term of contempt for a fiddler …1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. a barber …1792 Sc. obs.
n. 3. a hat; generally used contemptuously …1828 Sc.
n. 4. the bow of a fiddle; a fiddlestick …1843 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a greedy, acquisitive person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a tree frog …1932 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPERS
n. the heels, the feet …1824 Ireland

• SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL
vb. to use one’s last and worst resources; to be forced to desperate measures …1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRAPE THE ENAMEL
vb. to scratch the skin by falling …c1890 cyclists’ sl.

• SCRAPE THE TONGUE
vb. to talk affectedly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPE UP
vb. to get, esp. laboriously and bit by bit …1617

• SCRAPIE
n. a miser; a greedy, avaricious person …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRAPINGS
n. very insignificant or low-grade people …1966 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPINGS OF THE EARTH
n. very insignificant or low-grade people …1966 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPINS
n. savings of money …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAP IRON
n. poor-quality drink; inferior whisky …1942 US sl.

• SCRAP ISLANDER
n. applied to a Nantucketer by the people of Martha’s Vineyard …1916 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPIT-FACE
n. a person with a thin, haggard face …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRAP OF PAPER
n. a broken promise, treaty, or pledge …World War I Amer. sl.

• SCRAPPER
n. 1. a term of contempt for a fiddler …1821 Sc.
n. 2. a miser; a penurious, niggardly person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPPINGS OF THE EARTH
n. very insignificant or low-grade people …1966 Amer. dial.

• SCRAPPITY
n. the creaking of the soles of boots …1885 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPPLE
n. fried cornmeal …1965 Amer. dial.
vb. 1. to scrape …1881 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to struggle with the hands …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPPLINGS
n. scraps; odds and ends; remainders …1897 Eng. dial.

• SCRAPPY
adj. inclined to fight, quarrelsome …1895 orig. US

• SCRAT
n. 1. a scratch; a very slight wound; a scratching noise …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 2. the itch …1854 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a hobgoblin; the devil …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 4. anything very small and insignificant; a tiny child; a meagre, mean-looking person; the smallest coin …1885 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 5. a struggle for existence; a scraping or scratching together with pains and toil …1897 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a hermaphrodite …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 7. a saving, industrious person; a mean, niggardly, contemptible fellow;  a miser …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scratch with a pen; to write …1821 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch; to make a scratching noise …1836 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to save; to toil hard; to gain one’s livelihood laboriously; to struggle on …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to dig; to rake together …1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to itch …1897 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to scatter …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 7. to scramble; to reach out awkwardly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT ABOUT
vb. to potter about; to be busy in a poor, desultory fashion …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT AFORE ONE PECKS
vb. to earn one’s bread before one eats it …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCH
n. 1. the devil …1760 Eng. & Amer. dial.
n. 2. a hard struggle …1894 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the itch …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 4. the natural fork of a tree or branch; a pole with a natural fork at the end of it …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. money …1914 sl., orig. US
n. 6. a beard or whiskers …1960s Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to hurry; to do anything in a hurried, hasty, scrambling way …1831 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to forge banknotes and other papers …1859 US sl.
vb. 3. to scrape together; to save …1900 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to creak …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.

• THE SCRATCH
n. a crucial moment …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRATCH A BEGGAR’S ASS
vb. to be impoverished …1767 Amer. sl.

• SCRATCH ALONG
vb. to earn a scanty livelihood; to pull through hard times …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCH-ANKLE
n. 1. an out-of-the-way place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a part of a town inhabited by poor Whites …1965 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH-ANKLE HOLLER
n. an out-of-the-way place, or a very small or unimportant place …1965 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH BOSS
n. an assistant, subordinate, or acting foreman of a crew of workers …1965 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH-CRADLE
n. a game played by two children with a piece of string crossed upon the hands; cat’s-cradle …1878 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCHED
adj. slightly frozen, just covered with a film of ice …1746 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCHED-MAN
n. a person whom a publican has debarred from being served at his bar …1901 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCHER
n. 1. a counterfeiter; a forger …1859 sl., orig. US
n. 2. one who is greedily intent on accumulating money; a money-grubber …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a scouring pad …1965 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH FOREMAN
n. an assistant, subordinate, or acting foreman of a crew of workers …1965 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH GRAVEL
vb. to hurry; to work hard; to exert oneself …1834 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCHIN
n. a shrivelled, lean person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATCHINGS
n. breakfast cereals …Bk1942 Amer. sl.

• SCRATCH IVY
n. poison ivy …1960 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCHLAND
n. Scotland …Bk1896 sl.

• SCRATCH PAD
n. a scouring pad …1957 Amer. dial.

• SCRATCH UP
vb. to get, esp. laboriously and bit by bit …1922 Amer. sl.

• SCRATE
n. an old woman …B1900
vb. to scratch; to make a scratching noise, as with a slate pencil …B1900 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT-HARRY
n. the devil …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATLING
adj. imbecile, silly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• A SCRAT OF A PEN
n. a scrap of writing; a letter …1881 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT-PENNY
n. a greedy, miserly person …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTER
n. 1. a person who scratches …1839 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a saving, thrifty, or miserly person …1881 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTING
adj. paltry …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTINGS
n. savings got together with difficulty …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTLE
n. 1. a scratch …1867 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a struggle for existence; a dispute, a disturbance …1878 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scratch …1867 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch with a pen; to write …1873 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to go on the hands and feet; to scramble …Bk1904 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 4. to labour hard; to scrape and save …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to scramble for sweets, etc.; to hurry, to bustle; to slink off hastily; to hurry anything out of sight …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTLE ON
vb. to gain a precarious livelihood …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRATTY
adj. small, insignificant, thin, puny …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. a hobgoblin or bogey …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT WHERE IT DOESN’T ITCH
vb. to be in a difficulty; to be at a loss what to do (scrat = scratch) ..Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAT WHERE IT DOESN’T YUCK
vb. to be in a difficulty; to be at a loss what to do (scrat = scratch) ..1684 Eng. dial.

• SCRAUCHLE
n. a clamber, a crawl …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. to scramble, to creep, to crawl; to move with difficulty …1885 Sc.

• SCRAUNCH
vb. 1. to crush or grind with a sharp, grating noise; to grind between the teeth; to crunch, to eat noisily …1777 Eng. & Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch …1863 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to defeat in a game; to overcome an opponent, esp. in basketball  …1934 African-American students’ sl.

• SCRAVVLE
vb. 1. to rustle …Bk1904 Sc.
vb. 2. to scramble, to scrawl; to grope with the hands …Bk1904 Sc.

• SCRAWBY
adj. mean, stingy, niggardly …1881 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWING
adj. awkwardly tall, lanky; straggling; long and thin …1897 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWK
n. 1. a scratch, a mark; a mark with a pen …1865 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a scream …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to scratch, to mark; to scratch with a pen, to scrawl …1839 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to make a harsh, grating noise; to squeak; to scream. to shriek …1880 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWL
n. 1. a mean or despicable person; a person of low rank …1879 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a difficulty, hobble …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a quarrel, a brawl …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a scratch, a mark …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 5. a slight frost …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 6. a tangle; an entanglement …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
n. 7. the starting-line of a race …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to crawl, to creep; to move slowly or with difficulty; to hobble; to scramble, to sprawl …1747 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scratch …1865 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to scrape up; to gather together; to toss about in a confused, disorderly manner …1866 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to make a scanty subsistence; to live on uncertain wages …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to quarrel …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 6. to scorch, to cook anything too much …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 7. to snatch; to take anything abruptly or rudely …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWLATION
n. confusion, disorder …1828 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWLING
adj. mean, despicable, paltry; worthless, miserably small …1876 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWLING-FROST
n. a slight frost …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWM
n. 1. a scratch, scribble, scrawl; bad writing …1892 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a climb, clamber …1897 Eng. dial.
n. 3. a scramble; a fracas; …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 1. to climb, to clamber …1790 Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scramble awkwardly; to grope about with outstretched arms; to sprawl; to spread or stretch out in a straggling manner …1895 Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to scratch; to make irregular marks upon the surface of anything; to scribble, to scrawl …1897 Eng. dial.
vb. 4. to gather hastily together; to rake together; to seek after greedily …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to throw to be scrambled for …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMAX
n. anything badly formed or out of shape …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMER
n. a scribbler; a bad penman …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMING
adj. 1. ungainly, sprawling; straggling …1895 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. reeling, half-drunk …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMY
adj. 1. irregular, unshapely; lanky, large, straggling, spreading …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
adj. 2. scratched, marked; streaked in large showy flourishes …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMY-CAUF
n. a badly-shaped leg …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWMY-CAUF’D
adj. having a badly-shaped leg …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWN
vb. to swallow …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWNTY
adj. puny, scrawny …1954 Amer. dial.

• SCRAWT
n. a scratch or scrape …Bk1904 Sc. & Eng. dial.
vb. to scratch, to scrape; to make a scratching  noise …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.

• SCRAWTY
adj. apt or likely to scratch; hard-pointed, as a pen …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAWVLIN
adj. poor and mean …1825 Eng. dial. obs.

• SCRAY
n. 1. a thin, skinny person or animal; anything thin and shrivelled; a skeleton …1802 Sc.
n. 2. a bush …Bk1904 Eng. dial.

• SCRAZE
n. a scratch, a graze; a slight incision …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
vb. to scratch; to graze, to abrade; to rub slightly …Bk1904 Eng. dial.