scroggin

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scroggin (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A pre-prepared mixture of dried fruit and nuts to eat as a snack while bushwalking. [from 20th c.]
    • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 49:
      Tonight scroggin, cheese and dried fruit will do.
    • 2010, Charles Rawlings-Way, Brett Atkinson, New Zealand, Lonely Planet, page 76:
      And don′t forget your scroggin – a mixture of dried fruit and nuts (and sometimes chocolate) for munching en route.
    • 2010, Warwick Sprawson, The Overland Track: Cradle Mountiain to Lake St Clair, Australia: Red Dog Books, page 179:
      Trail mix or ‘Scroggin’, is a mix of dried fruit, nuts and sometimes chocolate that′s popular with hikers.

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