scraunch

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scraunch (third-person singular simple present scraunches, present participle scraunching, simple past and past participle scraunched)

  1. Alternative form of scranch
    • 1810, [anonymous] [], chapter XXI, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, []. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: [] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, [], →OCLC, pages 6–7:
      ‘Joe,’ said Mrs. Milford, scratching her head, and throwing her beaver upon the sofa; ‘go and fetch me three or four cabbage-stumps, and tell cook to pare them, and send them raw to me, I could scraunch a peck, I’m so dry—we had such a lot of nasty outlandish dishes.’