scraight

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

scraight (third-person singular simple present scraights, present participle scraighting, simple past and past participle scraighted)

  1. (UK, regional) To cry; to clobber; to conk.
    An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence

Usage notes[edit]

The term is used in English Midlands mining communities, normally in the present participle form, and truncated by the dialect pronunciation, so the g is dropped.