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bread and scrape

bread and scrape noun: bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.

Noun

bread and scrape (uncountable)

  1. Bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.
    • That's very nicely done indeed, not bread and scrape, nor yet more butter than bread, as some of those wasteful huzzies, the servant girls, cut it.1887, Alice King, The strange story at Lee, page 64

Questions about bread and scrape

What does bread and scrape mean?
Bread and scrape means bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.
What part of speech is bread and scrape?
Bread and scrape is a noun.

Words near bread and scrape in the dictionary

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