A small meal or snack (most often in Northern English, Scots and Geordie)
"(UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub. "
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I say "Northern England" and normally think of "Oop North" as beginning in Yorkshire, but for once I mean really North, Newcastle on Tyne, Manchester, Liverpool.
This is scran country, the country previously inhabited by Norse/Viking invaders, for that is the most likely origin of this word.
Probably of North Germanic origin, from or cognate with Old Norse skran (“rubbish; marine stores”). Compare Icelandic skran (“junk”), Danish skrammel (“junk, lumber”).
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In common parlance, it's a quick meal or snack, often taken in the pub or soon after at some fast food joint. A kebab, Shawarma or similar "lamb handbag" en route to the bus stop is scran. This isn't a knife-and-fork meal, it's street food at best, and junk food at worst. Think Taco Bell.
It differs from the equally-Northern slang word snap, which while it's an equally fast and snackish meal, usually implies some planning and preparation.
The other thing about scran is that, in line with its connection with post-drinking noshing, it's as much worn as eaten. If you see lads stagger off the bus or out of a taxi in the early hours, it's quite likely that they're covered in kebab sauce.
As is the case with so many British slang words, there are some quite creative folk etymologies and backronyms, in this case including the alleged Royal Navy's Sultanas Currants Raisans And Nuts supposedly to fend of scurvy and the insulting Shit Cooked by the Royal Australian Navy, neither of which are likely origins.
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