Scringe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /skɹɪnd͡ʒ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Scringe is a noun meaning (dialect, UK and US) The act or sound of scratching or scraping.
Meaning
(dialect, UK and US) The act or sound of scratching or scraping.
More Meanings
- (dialect, UK and US) A cringe.
- (fishing) A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.
- (dialect, UK and US, intransitive) To cringe or shrink.
- (dialect, UK and US, intransitive) To scrape.
- (fishing) To fish using a scringe.
Example Sentences
A scringe of pain brought the German back to the present .
Take courage, brother: you are making better progress than we are, for I cannot even get a scringe.
[…] to the scringe of bedsprings as the old landlady shook herself awake and reached for her false teeth,
Any teenager who, like myself, has ever got the gooseflesh at the flush and scringe of Hopkins's assonances and alliterations proves this upon his or her pulses .
Word Forms
- scringes
- scringing
- scringed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cringe, curb, flinch, cower, scrooch, croggle.
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