Word.ws English Dictionary

scraighting

scraighting is the present participle and gerund of scraight.

Meaning of scraight

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

Questions about scraighting

What is scraighting the present participle and gerund of?
Scraighting is the present participle and gerund of scraight.

Words near scraighting in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scraighting (page history and authors); scraight (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scraighting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scraighting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.