Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Scraps; broken victuals; refuse.
- noun Food in general.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Northumbrian, Liverpudlian
food
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Examples
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When it comes to food, or "scran" as it is known in the Navy, three meals are served on board daily.
British Blogs 2009
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When it comes to food, or "scran" as it is known in the Navy, three meals are served on board daily.
British Blogs 2009
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A survey of 3,000 people revealed 90 percent of Britons could identify foreign words such as "hasta la vista -- the Spanish for" see you later "-- but only 34 percent knew" scran "was the Merseyside expression for food.
timesofmalta.com 2008
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From Three Cliffs to the Britannia Inn, where do canny locals, visiting walkers and returning holidaymakers go for good, affordable scran?
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The Scottish Telegraph has stuck a separatist haggis on the expenses story by homing in on Alex Salmond claiming £400 a month for food, including taxpayer-funded scran during the summer break.
Labour resorting to anti-fascism? Jeff 2009
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With swanky flights, luxury hotels, gift books and a nice bit of scran to boot.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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With swanky flights, luxury hotels, gift books and a nice bit of scran to boot.
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With swanky flights, luxury hotels, gift books and a nice bit of scran to boot.
Archive 2007-09-30 2007
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When I got out I had some scran that's what I did require,
Row-Dow-Dow 1997
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But the same man set great store by that same baste -- bad scran to her!
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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