Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a silly woman.

2001

G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Scanger (n): stupid female.

2. a lout.

2002		Indep. Rev. 4 Sept. 5: I didn’t want to look like a skanger [Dublinese for lout].
2004		A. Schuler When Gaelic Spirits Wake 101: ‘To anyone but another scanger, which I am not. Ye may have had it right when ye insulted me as a bogger,’ he responded lightly. ‘And a culchie—well if I'm not a culchie than neither are the mother suckling sheep fuckers in Kerry!’.