scran

/ skræn /

noun

1. slang.
   food; provisions
2. bad scran to dialect.
   bad luck to

Word History and Origins

Origin of scran¹

C18: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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!

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