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Definition of Scraunch

1. Verb. Make a crushing noise. "His shoes were crunching on the gravel"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scraunch

Literary usage of Scraunch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"scraunch, va, var. of ' crunch,' crush up with a grinding noise. sb. the noise produced by ... It (a tooth) coom aout wi' a sooch a scraunch ! ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"Scratching s, n. a dish composed of fat from the 'leaf of a pig, cut up into dice, fried, and eaten, generally on toast, with popper and salt. scraunch ..."

3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1874)
"... scraunch. It does not at all follow that because a word suffers such imitative and symbolic changes it must be, like this, directly imitative in its ..."

4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1889)
"... of size, an imitative group more or less connected with the last will show—crick, creak, crack, crash, crush, crunch, craunch, scrunch, scraunch. ..."

5. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1903)
"... of size, an imitative group more or less connected with the last will show—crick, creak, crack, crash, erush, crunch, craunch, scrunch, scraunch. ..."

6. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1920)
"... of size, an imitative group more or less connected with the last will show—crick, creak, crack, crash, crush, crunch, craunch, scrunch, scraunch. ..."

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