scrip-scrapn.
/ˈskrɪpskrap/, U.S. /ˈskrɪpˌskræp/ Now somewhat rare.
As a mass noun or in plural: miscellaneous pieces of writing; scraps of paper; (later also more generally) bits and pieces, odds and ends. Also occasionally as a singular count noun: a scrap, a piece. Cf. scrips and scraps at scrip n.3 4a.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > miscellaneous things
short end1560
threads and thrums1600
varieties1624
giblet1638
thrum1648
scrip-scrap1711
sundries1711
odds and ends1761
oddment1821
odd-come-short1836
what-nota1861
flotsam1861
odds and sods1921
odds and bobs1957
1711 J. Norris Let. 1 June in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Lord Polwarth (1911) 507 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5289) XXXIII. 1 Old Raab has shoed me a list of the ships at Charlescrone that may be rady, with the other scrip scrap of a spys intellegence.
1822 London Mag. June 537 Accept—nor disdain it—this scrip-scrap of mine [i.e. collected poetry].
1833 Gimcrackiana 86 The scores of scrip-scraps sent here day by day, First read, then answer'd, and then thrown away.
1880 A. B. Warner Blue Flag & Cloth of Gold (U.K. ed.) viii. 75 ‘It's [sc. a letter] on a good many pieces of paper...’ ‘I'm not going to send him these scrip-scraps.’
1930 Amer. Childhood Oct. 42/1 She had a little scrip-scrap left; a little piece of blue and white cloth.
1934 Sydney Morning Herald 1 Dec. 12/3 The volume..is enriched with passages from Georgiana's English notebooks, ‘scrip-scrap’ from her journal [etc.].
2001 J. O'Neill At Swim, Two Boys xix. 588 All manner of scrip-scrap his father had saved: pins, button, bands, three foreign coins passed for sixpences, a Danish safety-pin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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