scran

• skran (Scotland)

Probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Old Norse skran (“rubbish; marine stores”). Compare Icelandic skran (“junk”).

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /skɹan/

scran (uncountable)

1. (slang, Northumbria, Liverpudlian, Royal Navy) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.

   Synonyms: scrawn (Geordie); see also Thesaurus:food

   Let wi gan and get some scran am starvin man!

   Let's go and get some food. I'm starving!

2. refuse; rubbish

• scrannish
• scrantime

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN

scran (third-person singular simple present scrans, present participle scranning, simple past and past participle scranned)

1. (slang, Liverpudlian) to eat

• Carns, cRNAs, carns, crans, crnas, narcs, scRNA, scarn, scrna