scranch

English

Alternative forms

• scraunch

Etymology

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

Verb

scranch (third-person singular simple present scranches, present participle scranching, simple past and past participle scranched)

1. (transitive, archaic) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to crunch.

References

• “scranch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.