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)
- (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.