A fork of Rural Dictionary
To watch television and surf the web simultaneously.
Barb: Get off the couch and get a job!
Sam: Shut it Barb, I'm watching TV and surfin Craigslist.
Mike: Quit scranning and get your bum ass employed!
This can be used in a couple of different ways, but typically refers to someone who is always hungry or extremely greedy and is always eating. The expression originated with the Royal Navy where the slang name for food is scran. It can also be used to refer to a person who is dirty, untidy, unkempt or of unprepossessing appearance, this too originated with the Royal Navy, perhaps because people who were always eating changed shape so that their uniforms did not fit or were so intent on food that they neglected their appearance.
“If eating was an Olympic sport, you’d be a gold medallist you scran bag!”
“Look at that scruffy sod! What a scran bag!”
Pre-scran-scran is a meal eaten before the main meal. It might only be a snack, or it might be a more substantial.
Pre-scran-scran is by nature a savory meal and not a sweet like pre-scran-duff, or post-duff-duff
Pre-scran-scran in its most significant form could be an entire meal such as a box of chicken legs and fries eaten before your curry.
In a lesser form it could be a tube of pringles, some salsa and guacamole.
when ya hungry for some fine looking rear
Bill: "How did it go with that chick last night?"
Bob: "yeah great lad, was up all night scranning batty"