Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scraight

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: scraight
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cry; to clobber; to conk.

British usage

Example Sentences

"An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence"

Etymology

Related to skrike.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

scraights (present, singular) scraighting (participle, present) scraighted (participle, past) scraighted (past)

Questions

What does scraight mean?: To cry; to clobber; to conk.
Where does scraight come from?: Related to skrike.

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