(scrouf) scoff
scoff n Approximately fifteen years ago and before this time the young people and sometimes the older people would have a scoff every two or three weeks during the winter months. This has gone out in Grole for about fifteen years now. A (scrouf) scoff was a big feed of potatoes, cabbage, pork and ot...
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1971
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| Online Access: | http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/44614 |
| Summary: | scoff n Approximately fifteen years ago and before this time the young people and sometimes the older people would have a scoff every two or three weeks during the winter months. This has gone out in Grole for about fifteen years now. A (scrouf) scoff was a big feed of potatoes, cabbage, pork and other things. . . . while this scoff was cooking they would have a game of cards. Each person involved in the scoff would carry his share of the vegetables. . . . Christmas time was a very good time for scoffs or sometimes on people's birthdays. JH 6/71 Used I and Sup Not used Not used [see 'scoff'] |
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