scrapn.1
/skrap/, U.S. /skræp/ 1. plural. The remains of a meal; fragments (of food); broken meat. rare in singular. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [noun] > left-over food
reliefc1300
ortc1325
broken meatc1384
scrapsa1387
reversionc1450
remissalsc1460
superfluities1483
levet1528
sheet-shaking1543
table crumb1566
relics1576
off-falling1607
analects1623
voiding1680
voidance1740
leftover1866
pot-washings1912
slarts1913
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 15 Ȝif I miȝte gadre som~what of þe crommes þat falleþ of lordes bordes... And also ȝif I myȝt gadre eny scrappes of þe releef of þe twelf cupes.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFFiii I shall in general, gather certayne scrappes & cromes that holy doctors hath left behynde them in writyng.
a1557 J. Cheke tr. Gospel St. Matthew (1843) xv. 27 For ye whelpes eat of ye scrappes yt fal from yeer Mrs. table.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 37 They haue been at a great feast of Languages, and stolne the scraps . View more context for this quotation
1610 S. Rid Martin Mark-all sig. E3 The muggill will tip you fat scraps and glorious bits, the Beadle will well bumbast you.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 220 Those that ingage Courts in quarrels of Iurisdiction,..for their own scrappes and aduantage.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iv. vi. 207 He drinks water, and liue's of wort leaues, pulse, like a hog, or scraps like a dog.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding To Rdr. sig. A6 He who has raised himself above the Alms-Basket, and not content to live lazily on scraps of begg'd Opinions, sets his own Thoughts on work, to find and follow Truth.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 259 'Twas but for scraps he ask'd.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 283 Feeding them only with delusive expectations and stale scraps of enjoyment.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xiii. 179 Scraping they liv'd, but not a Scrap they gave.
1856 T. B. Macaulay Johnson in Misc. Writ. (1860) II. 274 He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. ii. xxi. 123 He brought out of the pantry a dish of scraps [for a dog].
2. A remnant; a small detached piece; a piece very small by comparison with the whole; a fragmentary portion. Often with negative context = (not) the least piece.
a.
(a) Of material things.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount
shredc1000
farthingsworthc1325
pennyworthc1330
incha1350
sliverc1374
chipa1393
gnastc1440
Jack1530
spoonful1531
crumba1535
spark1548
slight1549
pin's worth1562
scruple1574
thought1581
pinch1583
scrap1583
splinter1609
ticket1634
notchet1637
indivisible1644
tinyc1650
twopence1691
turn of the scale(s)1706
enough to swear by1756
touch1786
scrimptiona1825
infinitesimal1840
smidgen1841
snuff1842
fluxion1846
smitchel1856
eyelash1860
smidge1866
tenpenceworth1896
whisker1913
tidge1986
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > specifically of something material
scrap1583
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F6 Neuer so litle scraps or shreds or short ends of lace.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 121 If Mansoul come to be mine, I shall not..consent that there should be the least scrap, shred, or dust of Diabolus left behind. View more context for this quotation
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. ii. 25 Like the scraps of Paper fastend by School-boys at the end of the String that holds their Kite.
1761 T. Gray Let. 24 Sept. in Corr. (1971) II. 757 Then I got a scrap of supper, &..walk'd home.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. vi. 155 As she passed through the crowd..a scrap of paper was thrust into her hand.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 27 Not a scrap of meat, or an ounce of biscuit, was left on board.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly II. xii. 177 Without a scrap of jewellery either round her neck or on her hands.
(b) scrap of paper n. applied contemptuously to a document containing a treaty or pledge which one does not intend to honour. The phrase is said to have been used by the German Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg (1856–1921), in connection with German violation of Belgian neutrality in August 1914 (cf. German ein Fetzen Papier). Some later examples allude to this.
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society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > [noun] > worthless
scrap of paper1840
straw bond1889
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > inefficacy > that which is
straw-device1601
herb John1614
cardinal's blessing1702
ineffectuality1838
scrap of paper1840
1840 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 11 Apr. 94/1 He no more dreamt of..honouring his scraps of paper..than of paying the national debt.
1914 E. Goschen Let. 8 Aug. in Coll. Diplomatic Documents rel. Outbreak European War (1915) 111 The Chancellor said that..just for a word—‘neutrality’,—just for a scrap of paper Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation.
1918 Daily Mail Year Bk. 1919 62/1 Those familiar with the ‘scrap of paper’ theory need hardly be told that the pledges given by the German Emperor..were not observed.
1932 K. Campbell Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough 83 James made it plainer every day..that, compared with his Church, the constitution of England and his own coronation oaths were mere scraps of paper.
1954 W. K. Hancock Country & Calling iv. 111 The British Empire, not so many years back, had professed itself to be at war with the doctrine that a treaty was only ‘a scrap of paper’.
1974 M. Gilbert Flash Point vi. 50 The First World War was fought over a small thing. A scrap of paper.
1980 Times 3 July 17/2 The Treaty of Union..wasn't a sacrosanct document, but in empirically English fact, just a ‘scrap of paper’.
b. Of immaterial things, conversation, literary compositions, etc.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount > a very small amount > specifically of something immaterial
sparkc888
shredc1400
drop1576
scrap1607
particle1620
atom1626
morsel1779
thimbleful1789
glimmer1837
flicker1849
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > small piece > specifically of something immaterial
shredc1400
scrap1607
filament1868
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. i A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse, Looke the I speake play scrappes.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §166. 209 Languages are to be learn'd only by reading, and talking, and not by scraps of Authors got by Heart.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World i. i. 7 He is a Fool with a good Memory, and some few Scraps of other Folks Wit.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 96. ⁋2 I..was forced to get what Scraps of Learning I could by my own Industry.
1728 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 359 My Lord Grange took up the debate,..in a very distinct discourse, which I cannot pretend to resume; it's but scrapes I can give.
1767 J. Wesley Jrnl. 17 July In my scraps of time..I read over that..poem.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 42 Follow'd then A classic lecture,..With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. App. 613 There is not a scrap of evidence in support of it.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 400 He could turn to account every scrap of knowledge..which he happened to possess.
1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. i. 22 The following note..is almost the only scrap of his early private correspondence which has reached me.
c. A small picture, cutting, etc. to be put in a scrap-book n. or used for ornamenting a screen, box, or the like.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [noun] > a picture > types of
emblemc1430
Flanders piece1659
night scenea1798
life study1837
colour picture1856
roundel1879
scrap1880
artist's impression1887
sleeve-picture1959
sleeve design1977
1880 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. II. 212/1 Having mounted many scraps of many kinds, including photos, I have found nothing so good as a..solution of gum arabic.
d. A small person. colloquial.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person
dwarfeOE
congeonc1230
go-by-ground?a1300
smalla1300
shrimpc1386
griga1400
gruba1400
murche1440
nirvil1440
mitinga1450
witherling1528
wretchocka1529
elf1530
hop-o'-my-thumb1530
pygmy1533
little person1538
manikin1540
mankin1552
dandiprat1556
yrle1568
grundy1570
Jack Sprat1570
squall1570
manling1573
Tom Thumb1579
pinka1585
squib1586
screaling1594
giant-dwarf1598
twattle1598
agate1600
minimus1600
cock sparrow1602
dapperling1611
modicum1611
scrub1611
sesquipedalian1615
dwarflinga1618
wretchcock1641
homuncio1643
whip-handle1653
homuncule1656
whippersnapper1674
chitterling1675
sprite1684
carliea1689
urling1691
wirling1691
dwarf man1699
poppet1699
durgan1706
short-arse1706
tomtit1706
Lilliputian1726
wallydraigle1736
midge1757
minikin1761
squeeze-crab1785
minimum1796
niff-naff1808
titman1818
teetotum1822
squita1825
cradden1825
nyaff1825
weed1825
pinkeen1850
fingerling1864
Lilliput1867
thumbling1867
midget1869
inch1884
shorty1888
titch1888
skimpling1890
stub1890
scrap1898
pygmoid1922
lofty1933
peewee1935
smidgen1952
pint-size1954
pint-sized1973
munchkin1974
1898 H. James Two Magics 60 ‘Perhaps she likes it!’ ‘Likes such things—a scrap of an infant!’
1928 E. P. Oppenheim Chron. Melhampton v. 146 I wasn't here for long, and I was a scrap of a fellow those days.
1939 N. Streatfeild Luke 109 I didn't know the poor little scrap could look so radiant.
1958 Woman's Jrnl. Mar. 77/2 ‘The woman?’.. ‘They picked her up late last night. Poor little scrap.’
3. plural.
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a. The pieces of blubber, fish, etc. remaining after the oil has been extracted. Also collective singular.
b. (See quot. 1823.) dialect.Cf. the synonymous crap n.1 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > strip of pig's fat or crackling
scratchingc1440
scraps1823
crackling1834
fat-back1903
1631 E. Pellham Gods Power 22 The Frittars or Graves of the Whale [Note These be the Scraps of the Fat of the Whale, which are flung away after the Oyle is gotten out of it].
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 334 Scraps,..the small pieces of fat pork remaining after the operation of boiling for the purpose of extracting the lard.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 187 The crisp membranous parts after the oil is extracted, and which are called by whalers ‘scraps’, serving for fuel.
1878 L. Maddocks Menhaden Fish. Maine 32 The article bears the same name when bought and sold as material for the superphosphate manufacturers, being called green or dry scrap, according to the moisture contained.
1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 187 Oil-factory scraps. Fish-scraps.
1898 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ iii. 18 The fires were fed with ‘scrap’.
c. collective singular. A commercial name for the crude rubber allowed to dry on the bark of the trees and then peeled off. Often in plural.
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1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 837/1 The milk..is allowed to remain on the tree for several days, until it becomes dry and solid, when it is pulled off in strings, which are either rolled up into balls or put into bags in loose masses, in which form it enters commerce under the name of Ceara ‘scrap’.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 838/2 Small ‘negroheads’ or ‘balls’ of scrap.
4. Founding.
a. plural. Remnants of metal produced in cutting up or casting.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials produced from metalworking > [noun] > remnants of metal
scrap1790
1790 Keir in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 367 In cutting out the rolled plated metal into pieces of the required forms and sizes, there are many shreds, or scraps as they are called, unfit for any purpose but the recovery of the metals by separating them from each other.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. (at cited word) When the bottom of a puddling furnace requires renewing, malleable scrap-iron is put in and burned up till the bottom is covered with a coating of silica. This operation is termed ‘putting scraps on’.
b. = scrap iron n.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > type of iron > scrap iron
old iron1383
stub1394
stub-nail1639
scrap iron1823
nut-iron1825
scrap1846
1846 W. Greener Gun (new ed.) 136 ‘Twopenny’ or ‘Wednesbury skelp’..is made of an inferior scrap.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 109 The pigs are to form the bath in which wrought iron and steel scrap is to be melted.
Compounds
C1. attributive quasi-adj. Consisting of scraps.
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1815 Gentleman's Mag. 85 ii. 540/1 The scrap-knowledge of musick is immethodically made up of second-hand quotations.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 14 Nine tons and more of mild scrap steel.
1902 Daily Chron. 4 Jan. 6/6 While two women..were digging for scrap coal into a disused railway embankment.
C2. General attributive. Also scrap-book n., scrap-heap n., scrap iron n.
scrap dealer n.
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1976 Loughborough Monitor 26 Nov. He had worked as a scrap dealer while claiming supplementary benefit.
scrap dealing n.
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1977 Belfast Tel. 22 Feb. 4/1 (caption) For scrap dealing..two heads better than one.
scrap gatherer n.
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1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 144 Parasites, and scrap-gatherers at free-cost feasts.
scrap merchant n.
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1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War i. 5 It certainly was tough, the future of my contemporaries encompassing everything from barrow boy to millionaire scrapmerchant and trade union peer.
scrap-metal n.
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1941 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 7 130 The Bronze Age pieces must be..scrap-metal.
1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control 3 The petty cash box resembles the scrap-metal example in reverse.
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scrap basket n. a waste-paper basket.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse
vat1534
voider1613
waste-paper box1836
dustbin1847
kid1847
waste-basket1850
scrap-box1858
waste-paper basket1859
garbage can1869
can1872
hell1872
scrap basket1872
sink tidy1881
tidy-betty1884
kitchen tidy1885
midden1890
wagger1903
W.P.B.1903
waste-bin1915
Sanibin1921
binette1922
G.I. can1929
trash can1929
trashbag1934
litter-bin1947
shitcan1948
pedal bin1951
trash-bin1955
litter-basket1958
midgie1965
bin1972
swing bin1972
tidy bin1972
dump bin1978
wheelie bin1984
binbag1986
1872 C. M. Yonge P's & Q's ix. 94 If she put it in the scrap basket, Persis herself might look in and see the writing.
1912 E. Pound Let. Dec. (1971) 13 I won't quarrel with you over what you see fit to put in the scrap basket.
scrap-box n. a receptacle for scrap-iron.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > refuse disposal > [noun] > receptacle for refuse
vat1534
voider1613
waste-paper box1836
dustbin1847
kid1847
waste-basket1850
scrap-box1858
waste-paper basket1859
garbage can1869
can1872
hell1872
scrap basket1872
sink tidy1881
tidy-betty1884
kitchen tidy1885
midden1890
wagger1903
W.P.B.1903
waste-bin1915
Sanibin1921
binette1922
G.I. can1929
trash can1929
trashbag1934
litter-bin1947
shitcan1948
pedal bin1951
trash-bin1955
litter-basket1958
midgie1965
bin1972
swing bin1972
tidy bin1972
dump bin1978
wheelie bin1984
binbag1986
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 15 If they could return and see their handiwork consigned to the scrap-box as old iron.
scrap-cake n. (a) dialect (see quot. 1877); (b) the solidified residuum of tried-out fat; (c) refuse of fish, etc.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > solidified residuum of dried-out fat
scrap-cake1877
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Scrap-keeaks, cakes made of dough mixed with scraps of fat or dripping.
1879 U.S. Comm. Fish & Fisheries V. 174 This cheese or scrap-cake is ground to different degrees of fineness.
scrap dinner n. a makeshift dinner.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > makeshift meal
scamblinga1525
scrap dinner1776
offput1882
jury meal1883
1776 in Arch. Maryland (1892) XI. 96 Will it be agreeable to the Governor and yourself to take a Scrap Dinner with me tomorrow.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 182 Mr. Sidney always came unseasonably... So sure as we had a scrap dinner, so sure came he.
scrap-furnace n. one for melting scrap-iron.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron
string-hearth1409
smithy1565
bloomery1584
chafery1663
air-bloomery1825
blast-bloomery1860
scrap-furnace1861
block-furnace-
1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 89 Balling and scrap furnaces.
scrap-ground n. = scrapyard n. below.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > scrap iron > heap of > site of
boneyard1860
junkyard1869
scrap-ground1927
scrapyard1963
1927 Observer 21 Aug. 19/2 Six years is about the maximum age of the cars taken for scrapping in America. Some reach the scrap-ground much earlier.
scrap-hopper n. a trough used in trying out blubber.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > equipment for extracting oil from blubber
try-works1792
try-pot1795
trying-pot1843
seal-vat1853
scrap-hopper1879
1879 G. B. Goode Catal. Coll. Animal Resources & Fisheries U.S.: Internat. Exhib. 1876 (Bull. U.S. National Mus. No. 14) 175 Scrap-hopper.
scrap man n. one whose business is the collection and sale of scrap-metal and its salvageable accessories.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in scrap metal
scrapper1648
scrap man1927
1927 Observer 21 Aug. 19/2 The scrap man's interest in these vehicles is purely that of a replacement part merchant.
1977 Custom Car Nov. 5/1 When it comes to fridge pumps, beware. The scrapman is out to con you.
scrap-monger n. one who deals in (literary) scraps.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
1786 ‘P. Pindar’ Poet. Epist. to Boswell (ed. 3) 23 Thou, curious scrapmonger, shalt live in song When Death hath still'd the rattle of thy tongue.
scrap paper n. paper that may be repulped or used again; rough paper for casual jotting.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > waste-paper
waste paper1585
scrap paper1885
society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > paper for rough work
scribbling paper1791
scribble paper1853
scribbling1859
scrap paper1885
scratch paper1899
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 228/2 The materials for the commoner classes of work are old waste and scrap paper, repulped... For very delicate relief ornaments, a pulp of scrap paper is prepared.
1960 M. Spark Bachelors xi. 195 Marlene walked solemnly downstairs and demanded some scrap paper from the hall porter.
1969 C. Irving Fake! (1970) iii. 39 He..made some preliminary sketches for several hours on scrap paper.
scrap-pie n. a pie consisting of scraps or remains of meals.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > other pies
crustade?c1390
flampointc1390
custardc1450
standing pie1587
pudding pie1593
French pie1611
pirog1662
battalia pie1664
tourte1706
custard pie1729
raised pie1740
sea-pie1751
cream pie1816
pot-pie1823
scrap-pie1829
resurrection pie1831
chess pie1860
Washington pie1878
milk tart1896
angel pie1923
chiffon pie1929
melktert1938
plate pie1946
banoffi pie1974
banoffi1994
1829 C. A. Bowles Chapters Churchyards II. i. 23 Just as the ‘young gentlemen’ had risen from their Saturday's commons of scrap-pie and stick-jaw.
1876 J. Payn Halves xii ‘Scrap pie’ and unattractive cutlets.
scrap pudding n. (see quot. 1888).
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1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Scrap pudding, a pudding made by mixing flour with the small pieces of meat, left after the fat of a pig has been melted down to lard.
scrap screen n. chiefly Historical a screen or divider (as in a nursery) decorated with scraps (sense 2c).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [noun] > interior or partition-wall
woughc888
wallOE
middle wallc1384
parclose1387
partitionc1450
screena1475
hallan1490
parpen wall1506
parpal walla1525
midwall1589
partition wall1605
inwall?1611
parpalling1621
screen work1648
sconce1695
stud partition1775
screening1850
scrap screen1873
parclose screen1889
1873 Young Englishwoman Jan. 51/3 Lizzie would be glad if the Editor could give her any information as to making a scrap screen.
1899 M. Beerbohm More 173 They will make the scrap-screen their background.
1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove v. 148 The room was masked from its entrance by an old-fashioned scrap screen.
1964 S. Nowell-Smith Edwardian Eng. iv. 201 The dark, cosy Victorian nursery..brightened by the varnished scrap-screen.
scrapyard n. the site of a scrap-heap; spec. a place where disused motor vehicles, etc., are scrapped.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > scrap iron > heap of > site of
boneyard1860
junkyard1869
scrap-ground1927
scrapyard1963
1963 Times 11 Jan. 10/3 (heading) Tow breaks on way to scrapyard.
1978 T. Allbeury Lantern Network iv. 59 A scrapyard with big double gates.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
scrapn.2
/skrap/, U.S. /skræp/ slang.† 1. (See quots. 1725, 1809.) Obsolete.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > villainy > [noun] > scheme
scrap1679
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > evil thought > wicked intention or scheme
scrap1679
1679–80 C. Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 217 The factious personns of his gange,..now mightily commiserat him, as if his accusation wase only to carry on ye pretended Presbiterian plot; for in truth they are in great feare Sr Robt. Payton shou'd bring them into ye scrappe.
1725 New Canting Dict. Scrap, a Design, a purpos'd Villainy, a vile Intention; also a perpetrated Roguery: He whiddles the whole Scrap; He discovers all he knows.
1809 G. Andrewes Dict. Slang & Cant Langs. Scrapp, a villainous scheme.
2.
a. A struggle, scrimmage, tussle; a boxing-match. Also gen., a contest.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight
bicker1297
fightc1300
tirpeilc1330
ragea1393
stradec1400
intermell1489
cockfighta1513
skirm1534
bustle1579
pell-mellc1586
brabble1587
jostle1607
scufflea1616
counterbuff1632
mêléea1648
roil1690
tussle1749
scrimmage1780
turn-up1810
scrape1812
pounding match1815
mellay1819
struggle1840
mix-up1841
scrap1846
rough-up1891
turn-to1893
push and shove1895
bagarre1897
stoush1908
dogfight1910
bundle1936
sort-out1937
yike1940
bassa-bassa1956
punch-up1958
thump-up1967
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > bout or contest
boxing match1699
set-to1743
bruising-match1757
show-off1776
rally1805
turn-up1810
mill1812
spar1814
twista1849
wap1887
go1890
scrap1905
promotion1907
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 75 By way of varying the slang, the mock combat turns into a right good scrap.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 280 Scrap, to fight. Also used as a substantive.
1885 G. Dolby Dickens iv. 102 Papers, which he threw carelessly amongst a group of passengers to be scrambled for—producing an effect more resembling a ‘scrap’ in a game of football than the action of a lot of sober citizens.
1905 Cent. Mag. Aug. 485/1 A suggestion to match the two coxswains..for a ‘feather-weight scrap’.
1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xi. 143 Better a bloody end in a street scrap than the tender mercies of that bandbox bravo.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 197 The Liverpudlian says ‘Come on I'll 'ave you a go’..or ‘I'll have you a scrap’.
1973 Times 10 Dec. 9/5 In a final that provided a keen scrap rather than a match of high quality, they beat the Etonians.
1977 J. Cleary High Road to China v. 158 My chaps..[are] itching for a scrap, y'know.
b. A contest of words; a row, quarrel, squabble; a heated discussion.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of
ganglinga1387
altercation1410
brawla1500
heat1549
wranglea1555
brabble1566
paroxysm1578
wrangling1580
brangle1600
branglement1617
rixation1623
row1746
skimmington1753
mêlée1765
breeze1785
squeal1788
hash1789
rook1808
blow-up1809
blowout1825
scena1826
reerie1832
catfight1854
barney1855
wigs on the green1856
bull and cow1859
scrap1890
slanging match1896
snap1897
up-and-downer1927
brannigan1941
rhubarb1941
bitch fight1949
punch-up1958
shout-up1965
shouting match1970
1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 210/1 Having a scrap up is having a quarrel, a row.
1900 Dial. Notes 2 57 Scrap,..a quarrel of words, sometimes good-natured.
1903 N.Y. Tribune 6 Sept. 2/2 In directing the proceedings..Mr. Hill was careful to sidetrack anything containing the germ of a ‘scrap’.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. xi. 199 It was his impression that they'd been having a scrap.
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scrapv.1
/skrap/, U.S. /skræp/ dialect.
intransitive. (See quot. 1895.)
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c1475 Cath. Angl. MS Add. 324/2 To Scrappe as a hen dose, ruspare.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Scrap, to scratch in the earth; as a dog or other animal having that propensity.
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scrapv.2
/skrap/, U.S. /skræp/ slang.
a. intransitive. To fight, box. Also, to scrimmage.
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)]
fightc900
deal993
wraxlec1000
skirm?c1225
makec1275
mellc1300
to fight togethera1400
meddlec1400
match1440
wring1470
cobc1540
toilc1540
strike1579
beat1586
scuffle1590
exchange blows1594
to bang it out or aboutc1600
buffeta1616
tussle1638
dimicate1657
to try a friskin1675
to battle it1821
muss1851
scrap1874
to mix it1905
dogfight1929
yike1940
to go upside (someone's) head1970
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (intransitive)]
box1581
to box it out (also to box it off)1689
spar1755
mill1829
scrap1874
to box on1898
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 280 Scrap, to fight. Also used as a substantive.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 137 Look..at the football picture opposite; note the two quarter backs, scrapping with each other in friendly combat.
b. transitive. To box with (an opponent). Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)]
bobc1280
box1679
scrap1893
1893 P. H. Emerson Signor Lippo xvii. 83 I could put up my dooks, so I was backed to scrap a cove bigger nor me.
1936 L. C. Douglas White Banners xvi. 335 I have given him until June first to scrap it out with himself.
c. intransitive. To quarrel, squabble; to engage in heated argument or angry dispute.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > in noisy or angry manner
flitec900
chidec1000
strivec1290
scold1377
wrangle1377
jangle1382
brawlc1440
bickera1450
to have words1490
altercate1530
jar1550
brangle1553
brabble1568
yed1570
fraple?a1598
barrat1600
warble1600
camp1606
to word it1612
caterwaul1621
cample1628
pickeer1651
spar1698
fratch1714
rafflea1796
row1797
barney1850
dudgeon1859
frabble1885
scrap1895
1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Scrap,..to quarrel.
1900 Dial. Notes 2 57 Scrap,..to quarrel, sometimes good-naturedly.
1923 Daily Mail 28 June 5 Are you going on scrapping over this garden fence for the rest of your lives?
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vii. 120 The play..was one of those things about two red-blooded guys who are always scrapping and loving each other.
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scrapv.3
/skrap/, U.S. /skræp/ 1. transitive. To break up into scrap-iron (machinery or ironwork which has become worn out or superseded); to consign to the scrap-heap. Also figurative.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject > as useless or unneeded
to throw awaya1398
to have no use for1596
chuck1821
fling1847
scrap1902
scratch1923
pitch1968
toss1976
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > refrain from using [verb (transitive)] > discard from use > as worn-out or useless
waste-basket1889
scrap1902
to cast on or consign to the scrap-heap1903
scrap-heap1907
1902 Daily Chron. 27 Oct. 8/4 The Americans would ‘scrap’ it [sc. a machine] at once if they discovered that something better had got on the market.
1904 G. B. Shaw Common Sense of Munic. Trading 41 Private enterprise..will not start a new system until it is forced to scrap the old one.
1906 Morning Post 6 July 6/6 A clause which will have to be ‘scrapped’.
1908 Sat. Rev. 11 July 38/1 The policy of..building fast small cruisers while scrapping numerous vessels of older type.
2. To make scrap or refuse of (menhaden or blubber).
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1891 in Cent. Dict.
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