Posted by John Nichols on July 26, 2005 at 17:50:58 from 165.91.196.16 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: Regional dialects posted by John Nichols on July 26, 2005 at 17:41:05:
ADDITIONS SERIES 1993
scrow, n.
Add: 5. [Perh. a different word.] A state of confusion or agitation; a commotion or fuss. Sc. and north. dial.
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1808 J. MAYNE Siller Gun III. 73 To bell the cat wi' sic a scrow, Some swankies ettled; But oh! they got a fearfu' cow, Ere a' was settled! 1861 E. WAUGH Rambles in Lake Country 184 Then, there was a girt cry‘Eh, Mr. Wilson's i' t' watter!’..and there was sek a scrowe as nivver. 1936 A. RANSOME Pigeon Post xvi. 172 You'd no call to bring her chasing up the valley for nothing, and her in a scrow with her papering and painting. 1984 Jrnl. Lakeland Dial. Soc. No. 46. 19 Henry Becky wazn't ower suited, an did nowt but twine aboot scrow Annie waz mekin.