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scraped, ppl. a.|skreɪpt| [f. scrape v. + -ed1.] 1. Deprived of the surface, or freed from excrescent or adherent matter, by scraping. Also, reduced to the condition of scrapings.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 20 b, They stoppe it with scraped linte. 1769Mrs. Raffald Engl. Housekpr. (1778) 21 Garnish it with..scraped horse-radish. 1853G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand i, My companion escaped..with no greater injury than a black eye and a scraped shin. 1897W. Anderson Lupus 8 Applying caustic potash to the scraped area. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 543 Scraped raw beef, taken at first in very small quantities, has been well borne. 2. a. Collected together or amassed. Also scraped-up, scraped together.
1598Marston Sco. Villanie H 4, His huge long scraped stock Of well penn'd playes. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop ii, And add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 387 By the aid of it..and a carefully scraped-up candle and a box of matches, the fire soon blazes. 1965Listener 3 June 828/1 In June 1942 the hastily scraped together force called 23rd Indian Division, with which I was serving, was isolated from the rest of the world. b. Designating women's hair that has been drawn back tightly from the forehead. Also scraped-back. Cf. scrape v. 2 g.
1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird viii. 118 Her deep-set eyes smiling gratefully under the grey, scraped-back hair. 1977Times 16 Sept. 7/8 Her scraped hair, self-effacing manner, and busy hands. 1978I. Murdoch Sea 156 Her scraped-back hair revealed her bulky rounded brow. 3. Sc. in well-scraped, ill-scraped, said of the tongue of a person as having or lacking refinement and courtesy of speech. Cf. filed ppl. a.
1785R. Forbes Poems Buchan Dial. 24 Thersites, Wha for's ill-scrappit tongue..got on his back Puss wi' the nine tails hung. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvii, It's ill-scraped tongues like yours, that make mischief atween neighbourhoods and nations. 1820― Monast. xxvi, Martin should keep a weel-scrapit tongue in his head. 1858,1884Ill-scraped [see ill- B.]. |