Lexicographical Neighbors of Scraugh
Literary usage of Scraugh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"See SCART. SCRAT, a mean, penurious, or contemptible person. scraugh ...
The scraugh of a heron. SCREAMER, the swift, Cypselus apus, L. Called also the ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"184. The term is here used as equivalent to scolding. scraugh, *. A loud and
discordant sound, ibid. " To be sure, I blew sic points of war, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"Crest-fallen, the Bantam will never crow again—the feathers are up on the nape
of his neck—and he gives vent to a lamentable scraugh. How changed from that ..."
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