▪ I. scraugh, n. Sc.
(skrɑx)
[Belongs to scraugh v.]
A loud, hoarse cry.
| 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xxiv, I blew sic points of war, that the scraugh of a clockin-hen was music to them. a 1826 Moir in J. Wilson Noctes Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 198 The old woman o'er the way To our cheer a scraugh gave back. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The scraugh of a heron. |
▪ II. scraugh, v. Sc.
(skrɑx)
Also 9 scrauch.
[Echoic: cf. scraigh, skreigh vbs.]
intr. To utter a loud hoarse cry.
| 1805 A. Scott Poems 15 (Jam.) Thus gaed they on wi' deavin din, A' scraughin, yelpin thro' ither. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, And if ye are deaf, what needs ye sit cockit up there, and keep folk scraughin' t'ye this gate? 1831 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1856 III. 102 The unhappy somnambulists are scrauching. |
Hence ˈscraughing ppl. a., in quot. harsh guttural.
| 1849 R. Curzon Monasteries Levant iv. vi. 421 My knowledge of his scraughing language did not extend very far. 1897 F. Mackenzie Sprays N. Pine xviii. 231, I carena though I never hear your scrauchin' voice again. |