"scraugh" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Scottish English",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1819, Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor",
          "text": "Allan Ravenswood, that was then master, wi' a bended pistol in his hand, - it was a mercy it gaed na aff, -- crying to me, that had scarce as much wind left as serve the necessary purpose of my ain lungs, 'Sound, you poltron! sound, you damned cowardly villain or I will blow your brains out !” and, to be sure, blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, John Wilson, The Works - Volume 1, page 198",
          "text": "The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Abraham Merritt, Hannes Bok, The fox woman and The blue pagoda and The black wheel, page 93",
          "text": "She haird the scraugh, and Mr. Boriloff frighted her half asleep as she was, by sayin' the R- r- revolution is corne!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A screech."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, countable) A screech."
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "countable"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society",
          "text": "The sod, or scraugh, which had been used to cover the mouth of the vessel, and prevent the bones which it contained from falling out, still held together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland",
          "text": "I also have the scraugh I took from the field behind the house, and every time I looks at it I thinks of the poor ould home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Chambers's Journal - Volume 64, page 543",
          "text": "Some thought that he must actually have swum under water till he was beneath the scraugh, so as to render rescue impossible and make sure of anathema!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sod."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Ireland, uncountable) Sod."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Ireland",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scraugh"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Scottish English"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1819, Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor",
          "text": "Allan Ravenswood, that was then master, wi' a bended pistol in his hand, - it was a mercy it gaed na aff, -- crying to me, that had scarce as much wind left as serve the necessary purpose of my ain lungs, 'Sound, you poltron! sound, you damned cowardly villain or I will blow your brains out !” and, to be sure, blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, John Wilson, The Works - Volume 1, page 198",
          "text": "The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back ;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Abraham Merritt, Hannes Bok, The fox woman and The blue pagoda and The black wheel, page 93",
          "text": "She haird the scraugh, and Mr. Boriloff frighted her half asleep as she was, by sayin' the R- r- revolution is corne!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A screech."
      ],
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        [
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          "screech"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland, countable) A screech."
      ],
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        "Scotland",
        "countable"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1855, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society",
          "text": "The sod, or scraugh, which had been used to cover the mouth of the vessel, and prevent the bones which it contained from falling out, still held together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland",
          "text": "I also have the scraugh I took from the field behind the house, and every time I looks at it I thinks of the poor ould home.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1887, Chambers's Journal - Volume 64, page 543",
          "text": "Some thought that he must actually have swum under water till he was beneath the scraugh, so as to render rescue impossible and make sure of anathema!",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sod."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "(Ireland, uncountable) Sod."
      ],
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        "Ireland",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "scraugh"
}