scraight

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verb

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”

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Meanings

verbscraight (third-person singular simple present scraights, present participle scraighting, simple past and past participle scraighted)

present singular third person scraights · participle present scraighting · participle past scraighted · past scraighted

  1. UKregionalTo 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

Origin

Related to skrike.

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APA

scraight. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraight

MLA

“scraight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraight. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “scraight,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/scraight.

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