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Scraige?

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Not sure how this would be spelled but Phil Upton used the word on Radio WM last week to describe an injury to knee/elbow after falling. My wife (from London) thought he said 'grazed' but I said I would always say as a kid I've 'scraiged' my knee.
Is this just a Brummie word? She had never heard of it (mind you she's never heard of half the things I say, and that's just the clean ones).

Bob
 
It's a word I've known a long time, and can also refer to the slight damage done to a car by gently driving it too close to something else. Whilst it can be a Brummie 'graze', it is only used in cases of slight injury or damage. To say "Where sheep may safely scraige" is not acceptable.
 
Glaciermint

In "The Second Book of Brum (Aware Din Urea)" by Ray Tennant this is his definition of scrage:

"Gravel Rash. Every boy and girl must have suffered this injury to knees, hands or elbows at some time before the age of ten"

I know I did. If ever I came off my bike I'd end up picking out gravel from whichever bit I landed on.
 
My 6 year old son fell over the other day and he told me that he'd SCRAIGED his knee, so I must use it with out knowing...
 
Yes, I can remember as a child 'scraiging' my knees and elbows. The term must have been passed down from my parents.

Mrs T .... I was surprised to read your post. I've not heard the word used for about 25 years...Florence
 
Hi All
I have always used the word scrage .Didn't think it was just a Brummie phrase..but it seems we use a lot of words not known elsewhere.my son married a Gloucester girl and when he told her one day to stop riffing she thought he was making the word up..so it seems we do use a lot of words just understood in Brum
 
I have always used it and knew quite well it was Brummie. I always get a laugh from my wife when I use it along with 'buz', 'tundish', 'horseroad', 'cowgown', etc.,
 
Your not going to disillusion me and tell me there's another word for tundish surely!!
 
My son told me the other day that they've got a new word for the 'wireless' now, and apparently I've got to stop asking him if he's 'pulled the chain' when he's been to the toilet!
 
Scraged describing when the skin was broken but not cut, was well used in Brum from when i was old enough to remember ( born 1929) still use it now.
 
Oh how bostin to discover I'm not the only one to use that word 'scraige'. My dear beloved thinks I've made it up!!! I always knew it was a 'proper' word!!!
 
Absolutely and we should be careful not to let it creep into the English language
 
Tun = barrel
Dish = shape of funnel-like item used for filling same, hopefully with Marston's Pedigree and equally hopefully only for a short time before emptying.

= tundish.

Big Gee
 
When i was a kid a scrage was more serious than a graise or is it graze?
 
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