10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BAD SCRAN TO»
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A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English
'Bad scran to you,' bad luck to you. Sheehan, Glenanaar, l67: "Sure, they say her
father and mother, bad scran to them, are safe and sound in America"; Leonard,
Out After Dark, l34: "I suppose me curse-o'-God horse is down the field again, ...
Terence Patrick Dolan, 2006
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Ir. Bad scran to you you unlucky hangin' bone thief, Lovsrt HandyAndy (184:) vi; i-
lutl bad scran to me, but i did, CARLITON Traits Pm. (ed. 134.3) I. 15. NJ} s.Don.
SIMIONB GL (1890). Waf. But bad scran to the note they'd give me back, ...
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
—3. Hence, refuse (of food): mostly dial. (—1808) and, as 5., + by 1910.— 4. Ex
sense 2, a meal: from ca. 1870: mostly military.—5. Bread and butter: army: C.20.
B. 81 P.—6. In bad scran to ..., bad luck to ...!: Anglo-Irish coll.: from ca. 1840.
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Dictionary of Newfoundland English: Second Edition with ...
P 245–57 A scrammed arm—withered, shrunk. scran1 n also scram*EDD ~ 6:
bad scran to;JOYCE 318; DINNEEN screain. Phr bad scran to: mild imprecation;
bad luck to (you) (1896 Dial Notes i, 380). C 70–28 If a pot boils over on the stove
, ...
W.J. Kirwin, G. M. Story, J.D.A. Widdowson, 1990
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
27, 1971 bad scran noun bad luck Ireland • The coward wouldn't stand his
ground,' he said to my mother that evening. 'But he heard me right enough, bad
scran to him,'[l— Hugh Leonard, Out After Dark, p 31, 1989 bad seed noun 1 ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
Bad scran to ye, Peter!' says she, as she rubbed her legs — ' bad scran to ye !
living or dead, there was always a sting in ye.' " As the latter part of this speech
was addressed in a tone of apostrophe to the statue of King William, it was
received ...
Charles James Lever, 1865
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Tom Burke of "Ours": In Two Volumes
'Bad scran to ye, Peter,' says she, as she rubbed her legs—' Bad scran to ye—
living or dead, there was always a sting in ye."' As the latter part of this speech
was addressed in a tone of apostrophe to the statue of King William, it was
received ...
Charles James Lever, 1844
He druv them back into the sea in 1940,61 and he'll do it again now. Sure what's
Churchill anyway, bad scran to him,62 only a yahoo,63 with the cigar stuck in his
fat gob and the face on him like a boiled shite. (Pause. Drummjust looks at him.) ...
Cóilín Owens, Joan Newlon Radner, 1990
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Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver, The Geography Of An Irish Oath, ...
"Bad scran to you!" is another form seldom used in anger: it is the same as "Hard
feeding to you!" "Bad win' to you!" is "Ill health to you!" it is nearly the same as "
Consumin' (consumption) to you!" Two other imprecations come under this head,
...
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The Irish Monthly Magazine of Politics and Literature. ...
Och, thin bad scran to the tongue o' me that'd say a word and you that a way, Jim,
" said the penitent wife, with a face of the deepest concern, " an' its mighty bad
wid you, you say, och, och, och ! an' sure that'd be the sore day any how, an' it ...
