Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrans
| scrambs scramjet scramjets scrammed scramming scrams scran scranch scranched scranches | scranky scrannel scrannels scrannier scranny scrans (current term) |
Literary usage of Scrans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"It also means by extension bad food, and corresponds in this instance to the
English " scran," broken victuals, food ; from scrans, refuse. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... scraps of food, scrans (qv). In Scotland there lived a humble beggar, He had
neither house nor ..."
3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... scraps of food, scrans (qv). In Scotland there lived a humble beggar, He had
neither house nor ..."
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