Citations:scram

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English citations of scram

Etymology[edit]

Origin unknown.[1]

Verb[edit]

scram (third-person singular simple present scrams, present participle scramming, simple past and past participle scrammed)

  1. (transitive, Devon, Hampshire, Warwickshire) To crush; to squeeze.
    • 1885, E[mily] Cruwys Sharland, chapter I, in Ways and Means in a Devonshire Village. A Book for Mothers’ Meetings. […], London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, […], →OCLC, page 12:
      Laying in a fire well is quite an art, though, [...] After cleaning your grate our you want to put a few cinders in the bottom; next must come a layer of paper, pulled abroad with a light hand, not scrammed (squeezed) up in your hand first, as some folks do; [...]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Compare Joseph Wright, editor (1905), “SCRAM, v.2”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes V (R–S), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 269, column 1.
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