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scrappet|ˈskræpɪt| Also scrappit. [f. scrap n.1 + -et1.] A small quantity or amount, a little scrap.
1901Pilot 19 Jan. 75/2 Scrappets of science such as can be read in penny weekly papers. 1901‘L. Malet’ Hist. Sir Richard Calmady v. v. 415 There's selfishness now, if you like—to appropriate a virtue en bloc, not leaving a rag, not the veriest scrappit of it for anybody else! 1905F. Harrison in Westm. Gaz. 24 Feb. 6/3 Political interest is transferred to scrappets in halfpenny prints. 1941E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner in Memison xiii. 209 ‘A scrappet of ham: just half of that littlest slab,’ she said. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xv. 194 They warned me that they had very little food—just the odd scrappets that Dougal had taken up that morning. |