scran v.
1. to provide with food.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | in Every-day Bk (1827) II 527: Tickets to be had for three Megs a Carcass to scran their Pannum-Boxes. |
2. to collect scraps of food to make up a meal.
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
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3. to eat.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Filth 18: I get a couple of bacon rolls, and Ray gets another sausage roll, which we scran back. | |
| (con. 1980s) Skagboys 416: I take my tea with five sugars, and Coco Pops and milk, scranning it back as quick as I can. | |
| Young Team 131: Normally yi wud snatch the thing [...] n scran fuck oot it. |
In derivatives
(Scot.) begging for scraps of food.
| Dict. of the Flash or Cant Lang. 165/1: Scranning – begging. | |
| in ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue. | |
| , | | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. |
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |
In phrases
in the position of begging for scraps of food.
| , , | | Sl. Dict. |