Etymology

scran

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Today it means: Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub. Full definition →

Old Norse skran
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromskran“rubbish; marine stores”
  2. English todayscran

Probably of North Germanic origin, from or cognate with Old Norse skran (“rubbish; marine stores”). Compare Icelandic skran (“junk”), Danish skrammel (“junk, lumber”). Doublet of scrawn.

Words from the same roots

Old Norseskran all →

scrawny

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.