scroggin

1. AustraliaNew ZealanduncountableA prepared mixture of dried fruit and nuts to eat as a snack while bushwalking.First known use 20th c.

   Tonight scroggin, cheese and dried fruit will do.

   1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 49

   2 more examples

   And don′t forget your scroggin – a mixture of dried fruit and nuts (and sometimes chocolate) for munching en route.

   2010, Charles Rawlings-Way, Brett Atkinson, New Zealand, Lonely Planet, page 76

   Trail mix or ‘Scroggin’, is a mix of dried fruit, nuts and sometimes chocolate that′s popular with hikers.

   2010, Warwick Sprawson, The Overland Track: Cradle Mountiain to Lake St Clair, Australia: Red Dog Books, page 179

   Synonyms: gorp, trail mix

plural Scroggins

1. A surname.