' [skra'ml.] A lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal.
' [skra'ml.] A lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal. Cf. scrannel, adj.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal.
To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw, to scram.
A Scottish and northern English dialect word for scrawny — thin, bony, and underfed-looking. Scranny captures that particular kind of leanness that suggests hardship or neglect rather than athletic fitness. Used for people, animals, or plants that look like they haven't had enough of anything. It has a slightly rougher, more critical edge than 'slim' but less clinical than 'underweight.'
(obsolete) To scrape (something) together with the hands.
To pull down or rip off (something) with force.