scraunch

English

Verb

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.’