scruncheon
scruncheon is the alternative form of scrunchion.
Meaning of scrunchion
Noun
scrunchion (plural scrunchions)
- A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.
- But they remember fishing into the winter. “Christ,” says Bernard, “out there handlining in the snow. You’d come in numb. We didn’t have these modern clothes. Just wool. Or if they had them, we didn’t know.” “No,” said Leonard, “they weren’t there.” “Christ, it was cold.” “We didn’t have any...1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Prologue: Sentry on the Headlands (So Close to Ireland)”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN
Forms of scruncheon
| plural | scruncheons |
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Questions about scruncheon
- What is scruncheon the alternative form of?
- Scruncheon is the alternative form of scrunchion.
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