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scraight

scraight verb: to cry; to clobber; to conk.

Verb

scraight (third-person singular simple present scraights, present participle scraighting, simple past and past participle scraighted)

  1. (UK, regional) To cry; to clobber; to conk.
    • An' stop they scraightin' childt, Do shut thy face! - From "The Collier's Wife", a dialect poem by D. H. Lawrence

Forms of scraight

third-person singular presentscraights
present participlescraighting
past participlescraighted
pastscraighted

Origin of scraight

Related to skrike.

Questions about scraight

What does scraight mean?
Scraight means to cry; to clobber; to conk.
What part of speech is scraight?
Scraight is a verb.
What is the past tense of scraight?
The past tense of scraight is scraighted.

Words near scraight in the dictionary

  1. scraggy
  2. scragh
  3. scraghs
  4. scragly
  5. scrags
  6. scraight
  7. scraighted
  8. scraighting
  9. scraights
  10. scram
  11. scramasax

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