noun food: And she stole all my money, bad scran to her breed [extended family] 18-.
‣ scranning verb to go about scrounging food or other means of subsistence, to save or scrape together in a petty or frugal way: They [BW’s Mother and aunts] had been scranning the shops for anything that was going: cuttings of bacon from the ham machine, bread and buns from the day before, scraps of meat... 19-.
adjective hungry: I’ll get the fire lit, your big sisters will be home soon, and they’ll be scranning. 20-. etymology: originally Scots ‘food refuse; scraps of human food thrown to dogs’; form scran also collected by EMcC/PS and attested by BS in TDITA and JS; verb attested by JS and BW