scrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: scraps
Etymology: From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).
Senses: examples: text: I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.
text: I have no materials — not a scrap.
ref: 1852, Thomas De Quincey, “Sir William Hamilton”, in Hogg's Instructor:
synonyms: word: scraplet
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
glosses: A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
examples: text: I don't care a scrap.
text: “I don't mind anything. I don't mind your being technically German a scrap. All I think is that it was a little—well, perhaps a little excessive to marry another German when you had done it once already. […]”
ref: 1920, [Elizabeth von Arnim], In the Mountains, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 188:
synonyms: word: scraplet
word: snippet
word: bit
word: chip
word: chunk
word: clip
word: crumb
word: crumbling
word: cutting
word: flake
word: fleak
word: fragment
word: hunk
word: lump
word: mammock
word: ort
word: piece
word: piecemeal
word: portion
word: scrap
word: scraplet
word: slice
word: snead
word: snippet
word: steck
word: bit
word: jot
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
The smallest amount.
examples: text: Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.
synonyms: gubbins
leftover
ort
glosses: Leftover food.
examples: pork scraps
glosses: The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.
examples: text: That car isn't good for anything but scrap.
text: “We need a set of wheels to carry out this plan of yours.”
“Queenie?”
“We need her now more than ever.”
“Will she still be in the field where we left her?”
“No, no, no. The fuzz will have towed her away by now.”
“Where will she be, then?”
“They will have sold the old girl off for scrap.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: cultch
word: crap
word: debris
word: dreck
word: drek
word: garbage
word: junk
word: litter
word: pelf
word: piece of crap
word: piece of garbage
word: piece of shit
word: pile of crap
word: pile of shit
word: piece of trash
word: rubbish
word: refuse
word: roughage
word: service item
word: shit
word: stuff
word: trash
word: waste
glosses: Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.
synonyms: gribble
scratching
glosses: A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
synonyms: trash
glosses: Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.
glosses: A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.
glosses: A snare for catching birds.
Derived terms: e-scrap
fish scrap
scrapbook
scrap book
scrap car
scrap dealer
scrap heap
scrapheap
scrap merchant
scrap paper
scrappy
scrapyard
table scrap