scriddann.

Brit.

/ˈskrɪdn/, U.S.

/ˈskrɪd(ə)n/, Scottish English

/ˈskrɪd(ə)n/

Forms: 1700s 2000s– scriddan, 1800s scridan, 1800s scridden.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic sgrìodan.

Etymology: Apparently < Scottish Gaelic sgrìodan stony ravine, track of a mountain torrent, scree (although this is first attested slightly later: 1812 or earlier), apparently < an early Scandinavian base (compare Old Icelandic skriða : see scree n.) + an unidentified suffix, perhaps Early Irish -than place of (in later use probably identified with the Scottish Gaelic diminutive suffix -an).

Scottish. Now rare.

A torrent of water, carrying a large quantity of rocks and stones, which pours down a mountainside or hillside following rain; the stones or rocks deposited by such a torrent.

ΚΠ

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 249 The farms which are bases to high mountains, as in Kintail, suffer great losses from what is called Scriddan, or ‘mountain torrent’... The farm of Auchuirn..was, in 1745, rendered uninhabitable..by an awful Scriddan.

1820 R. Mudie Glenfergus I. viii. 203 When the rain, falling on the side of a hill, tears the surface, and precipitates a large quantity of stones and gravel into the plain below, we call that a scridan.

1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 424/1 There's no ae burn in braid Clydesdale But wimples at my will, Nor a scridden broun that but my leave Comes tumbling doun the hill.

1878 M. F. Heddle County Geognosy & Mineral. Sc. 253 Upon most rock-runs and ‘scridans’, the surface-stones at least, have been chance-caught.

2014 G. McKay tr. W. Auld Infant Race ii. 130 The craig waas tremmle an a flude breks throu Watter in scriddans rairin throu the nick.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	scriddan
释义	scriddann. Brit. /ˈskrɪdn/, U.S. /ˈskrɪd(ə)n/, Scottish English /ˈskrɪd(ə)n/ Forms: 1700s 2000s– scriddan, 1800s scridan, 1800s scridden. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Scottish Gaelic. Etymon: Scottish Gaelic sgrìodan. Etymology: Apparently < Scottish Gaelic sgrìodan stony ravine, track of a mountain torrent, scree (although this is first attested slightly later: 1812 or earlier), apparently < an early Scandinavian base (compare Old Icelandic skriða : see scree n.) + an unidentified suffix, perhaps Early Irish -than place of (in later use probably identified with the Scottish Gaelic diminutive suffix -an). Scottish. Now rare. A torrent of water, carrying a large quantity of rocks and stones, which pours down a mountainside or hillside following rain; the stones or rocks deposited by such a torrent. ΚΠ 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 249 The farms which are bases to high mountains, as in Kintail, suffer great losses from what is called Scriddan, or ‘mountain torrent’... The farm of Auchuirn..was, in 1745, rendered uninhabitable..by an awful Scriddan. 1820 R. Mudie Glenfergus I. viii. 203 When the rain, falling on the side of a hill, tears the surface, and precipitates a large quantity of stones and gravel into the plain below, we call that a scridan. 1820 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 424/1 There's no ae burn in braid Clydesdale But wimples at my will, Nor a scridden broun that but my leave Comes tumbling doun the hill. 1878 M. F. Heddle County Geognosy & Mineral. Sc. 253 Upon most rock-runs and ‘scridans’, the surface-stones at least, have been chance-caught. 2014 G. McKay tr. W. Auld Infant Race ii. 130 The craig waas tremmle an a flude breks throu Watter in scriddans rairin throu the nick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793
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