spelling with `ch' is a curious after-thought, suggestive of
alcohol. The name cannot come from schnapps."

<hw>School-Schnapper</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish.
A name given to the <i>Schnapper</i> when three years old.
See <i>Schnapper</i>.

<hw>Scorpion</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the New South
Wales fish <i>Pentaroge marmorata</i>, Cuv. and Val.; called
also the <i>Fortescue</i> (q.v.), and the <i>Cobbler</i>.

<hw>Scotchman</hw>, <i>n</i>. a New Zealand name for
a smaller kind of the grass called <i>Spaniard</i> (q.v.).

1895. W. S. Roberts, `Southland in 1856,' p. 39:

"As we neared the hills speargrass of the smaller kind,
known as Scotchmen,' abounded, and although not so strong
and sharp-pointed as the `Spaniard,' would not have made
a comfortable seat."

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 28, p. 407, col. 5:

". . . national appellations are not satisfactory. It seems
uncivil to a whole nation--another injustice to Ireland--to
call a bramble a wild Irishman, or a pointed grass, with the
edges very sharp and the point like a bayonet, a Spaniard. One
could not but be amused to find the name Scotchman applied to a
smaller kind of Spaniard.'

<hw>Scribbly-Gum</hw>, <i>n</i>. also called <i>White-Gum</i>,
<i>Eucalyptus haemastoma</i>, Sm., <i>N.O. Myrtaceae</i>. See
<i>Gum</i>.

1883. F. M. Bailey, `Synopsis of Queensland Flora,' p. 174:

"Scribbly or White-Gum. As regards timber this is the most
worthless of the Queensland species. A tree, often large, with
a white, smooth, deciduous bark, always marked by an insect in
a scribbly manner."

<hw>Scrub</hw>, <i>n</i>. country overgrown with thick bushes.
Henry Kingsley's explanation (1859), that the word means
shrubbery, is singularly misleading, the English word conveying
an idea of smallness and order compared with the size and
confusion of the Australian use. Yet he is etymologically
correct, for <i>Scrobb</i> is Old English (Anglo-Saxon) for
shrub; but the use had disappeared in England.

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. c. i. p. 21:

"We encamped about noon in some scrub."

1838. T. L. Mitchell,' Three Expeditions,' vol. i. p. 213:

"A number of gins and children remained on the borders of the
scrub, half a mile off."

1844. J A. Moore, `Tasmanian Rhymings' (1860), p. 13:

"Here Nature's gifts, with those of man combined,
Hath [sic] from a scrub a Paradise defined."

1848. W. Westgarth, "Australia Felix,' p. 24: