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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SKREPPO, n.2 A completely dried-up substance, like a hard piece of hide, seaweed or peat, gen. in similes or metaphors as in phrs. (hard) like a skreppo, (dried) tae a skreppo (Ork. 1929 Marw.). [′skrɛpʊ]
[Etym. uncertain. Phs. ad. Norw. skorpa, a crust, skorpen, shrivelled, but the phonological development is unclear.]
