scraughとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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scraugh (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 scraughs)

1. (Scotland, countable) A screech.
   • 1819, Sir Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor:

     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.

   • 1867, John Wilson, The Works - Volume 1, page 198:

     The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back ;

   • 1976, Abraham Merritt & ‎Hannes Bok, The fox woman and The blue pagoda and The black wheel, page 93:

     She haird the scraugh, and Mr. Boriloff frighted her half asleep as she was, by sayin' the R- r- revolution is corne!

2. (Ireland, uncountable) Sod.
   • 1855, Kilkenny Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society:

     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.

   • 1881, David Power Conyngham, The O'Donnells of Glen Cottage: A Tale of the Famine Years in Ireland:

     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.

   • 1887, Chambers's Journal - Volume 64, page 543:

     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!