scraen.1
/skreɪ/, U.S. /skreɪ/, Scottish English /skre/ Scottish.
1. A diminutive or skinny person.
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1803 J. Jamieson Water Kelpie in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 363 [To a crying child], Lie still, ye skrae.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton III. vii. ii. 119 Yon poor shaughlin' in-kneed bit scray of a thing!
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 136 Lean skraes o' men.
2. ‘A shrivelled old shoe’ (Jamieson).
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1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 251 Mickle Sorrow comes to the Screa, e'er the Heat come to the Tea [= toe]. Spoken when one holds his Shoe to the Fire to warm his Foot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
scraen.2
/skreɪ/ Orkney and Shetland.
Dried fish. Also scrae-fish.
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1806 P. Neill Tour Orkney & Shetl. 78 The gables of the cottages here, were..hung round with hundreds of small coalfish,..strung upon spits, and exposed to dry, without salt. The fishes dried in this manner are called scrae-fish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
scraeadj.
/skreɪ/, U.S. /skreɪ/, Scottish English /skre/ Scottish.
Thin, lean. Also scrae-shanked adj.
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1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. vii. 232 The skrae-shankit Laidlaws.
1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow xviii. 241 This skrae-shankit laddie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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