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.
| 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 20 b, They stoppe it with scraped linte. 1769 Mrs. Raffald Engl. Housekpr. (1778) 21 Garnish it with..scraped horse-radish. 1853 G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand i, My companion escaped..with no greater injury than a black eye and a scraped shin. 1897 W. Anderson Lupus 8 Applying caustic potash to the scraped area. 1897 Allbutt'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.
| 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie H 4, His huge long scraped stock Of well penn'd playes. 1840 Dickens Old C. Shop ii, And add a few scraped shillings every week to the money you can hardly count. 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 387 By the aid of it..and a carefully scraped-up candle and a box of matches, the fire soon blazes. 1965 Listener 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. 1977 Times 16 Sept. 7/8 Her scraped hair, self-effacing manner, and busy hands. 1978 I. 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.
| 1785 R. Forbes Poems Buchan Dial. 24 Thersites, Wha for's ill-scrappit tongue..got on his back Puss wi' the nine tails hung. 1818 Scott 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, 1884 Ill-scraped [see ill- B.]. |