a portmanteau made of "scary" and the abbreviation for the word crazy "cray" to describe the feeling of both awe and fascination facing a potential dangerous situation
duni said she has been through a hurricane, she was just inside the hotel everything was shaking it was so scray
by hnrk93 July 22, 2015
by SacTown$are January 12, 2012
Etymologically rooted in the German "Schraschattleschraum", meaning "release of creeping anxiety through subtle trappings of mirth, and maybe some sauerkraut" linguists have struggled to trace the origins of this popular urban term.
In his seminal text 'Syntactic Structures', linguist Noam Chomsky asserts that "scray" entered the english language around 1953. This was the dawn of the era in which mass communications technology began to difuse previously disparate elements into increasingly oblique and monastic forms. Consequently, ensuing developments of verbally expressed culture exhibited markedly parochial leanings. Chomsky feels such etymological dynamism aided the spreading of terms such as "scray" and "scallywop" across previously unscalable spatial and temporal borders.
However, famed pimp Iceberg Slim argues that "scray" in its current context was in fact introduced by "his own bad self," and that Chomsky "and his honky MIT people" are merely "suckas".
In his seminal text 'Syntactic Structures', linguist Noam Chomsky asserts that "scray" entered the english language around 1953. This was the dawn of the era in which mass communications technology began to difuse previously disparate elements into increasingly oblique and monastic forms. Consequently, ensuing developments of verbally expressed culture exhibited markedly parochial leanings. Chomsky feels such etymological dynamism aided the spreading of terms such as "scray" and "scallywop" across previously unscalable spatial and temporal borders.
However, famed pimp Iceberg Slim argues that "scray" in its current context was in fact introduced by "his own bad self," and that Chomsky "and his honky MIT people" are merely "suckas".
by ryan johnson March 10, 2005
"Dude, meth?! Yo that shit scray"
"You want me to rock climb without a harness?? No way, that shit is so scray"
"Yo she a scray bitch! One time I had her over to carve a pumpkin and 10 mins in she shouts 'beer is better' and completely destroys my pumpkin"
"Courtney Love? She scray"
"You want me to rock climb without a harness?? No way, that shit is so scray"
"Yo she a scray bitch! One time I had her over to carve a pumpkin and 10 mins in she shouts 'beer is better' and completely destroys my pumpkin"
"Courtney Love? She scray"
by seriousaboutscuba June 6, 2018
i couldn´t belive it, it was totally scray shit
i bet you would never scray shit because you are such a pussy
i bet you would never scray shit because you are such a pussy
by deinemum May 17, 2018
Informal nickname for the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, the rapidly-gentrifying home of uni sharehouses, theoretically thousands of Victoria Bitter singlets and shitty pub rock bands.
DAVO: You end up going to that gig in the scray?
DAZZA: Yeah, man. I love Wil Wagner so I had to go.
DAZZA: Yeah, man. I love Wil Wagner so I had to go.
by pinto boy 96 November 18, 2018