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scrunchions

scrunchions is the plural of scrunchion.

Meaning of scrunchion

Noun

scrunchion (plural scrunchions)

  1. (Canada, Newfoundland, plural-normally) 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

Questions about scrunchions

What is scrunchions the plural of?
Scrunchions is the plural of scrunchion.

Words near scrunchions in the dictionary

  1. scrunching up
  2. scrunchingly
  3. scrunchings
  4. scrunchins
  5. scrunchion
  6. scrunchions
  7. scrunchis
  8. scrunchy
  9. scrunchy mama
  10. scrunchy mamas
  11. scrunchy mom

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