▪ I. scrapple, n.1 dial.
(ˈskræp(ə)l)
Forms: 4 scrapill, scrapyll, 7 skrapple, 7–9 scraple, 9– scrapple.
[f. scrape v. + -el. Cf. WFlem. schrepel in the same sense.]
A tool used for scraping or raking up.
| 1354 in Finchale Priory Charters (Surtees) p. xxxvij, j scrapill, j securis. 1397 Ibid. p. cxviij, Item j por et j scrapyll. 1615 W. Lawson Country Housew. Gard. (1626) 46 A skrapple of iron..For Nettles and ground-Iuy after a showre. 1825 Jamieson, Scraple, 1. An instrument used for cleaning the Bake-board, Roxb. 2. One for cleaning a cow-house. 1875 W. Dickinson Cumbriana 51 The girl came out with a small coal-rake, to which the old dame pointed, saying, ‘Whè, that's what a scrapple may be!’ |
▪ II. ˈscrapple, n.2 U.S.
[dim. of scrap n.1]
An article of food made from scraps of pork, etc. stewed with meal and pressed into large cakes.
| 1855 Rural New Yorker 10 Feb. 47/3, I observe a call for a recipe for making ‘Scrapple’, and some other homely dishes. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. ii. 59 The sausage and scrapple of New Jersey. 1881 Harper's Mag. Jan. 181 Milk, eggs, sausage, scrapple, vegetables, and poultry, all fresh from the farm. 1910 ‘O. Henry’ Whirligigs x. 130, I never cared especially for feuds, believing them to be even more over⁓rated products of our country than grapefruit, scrapple, or honeymoons. 1942 H. W. Van Loon Van Loon's Lives 632 Dante has become a taste that has to be acquired like a love for figs or scrapple. 1943 [see ponhaus]. 1975 R. Stout Family Affair (1976) ii. 20 A plate of slices of home-made scrapple. |
▪ III. ˈscrapple, v. dial.
Also 6 skraple, 8 scraple.
[f. scrapple n.1]
To scrape or use a ‘scrapple’.
| 1504 Nottingham Rec. III. 321 For skraplyng of ij. trees. 1711 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 138 This pavem{supt}, after a little earth was scrapled away from its surface..was very fresh and faire. 1847 Halliwell, Scrapple, to grub about. Oxon. 1881 J. Sargisson Joe Scroap's Journ. 48 (E.D.D.) They scrapplt up t'wet spots gayly weel. |