Etymology

scranch

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Today it means: To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch. Full definition →

Dutch schransen ← German schranzen
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The story

  1. German · derived fromschranzen
  2. Dutch · derived fromschransen“to eat greedily”
  3. English todayscranch

Compare Dutch schransen (“to eat greedily”), German schranzen. Compare crunch, scrunch.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.