scran

/ skræn /

noun

Origin of scran¹

C18: of unknown origin

But the same man set great store by that same baste—bad scran to her!

The Phaynix Park is all cram-full o' coal that the Castle folks won't allow us to dig, bad scran to them!

The student will note that the infinitive (scran) is here employed as a present participle after a verb of motion (cwman).

And old Turkey has been putting the screws on me all term, bad scran to him.

She's thinking of nothing but to get me out there again to be wounded so that she may spend my pension, bad scran to her!

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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