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scrapegut

scrapegut noun: a fiddler.

Noun

scrapegut (plural scrapeguts)

  1. (obsolete) A fiddler.
    • His father met him with some impatient questions as to what he had been living on so long, for the old man well knew how scantily his pocket was supplied. "Pretty much like the young ravens," answered he; "I only wished I had been as good a player on the flute as poor George Primrose in The Vicar...1837, John Gibson Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, volume 1, pages 151–152
    • I was known in the whole street as crins crins, and scouted by the neighbours with the nickname of "Racleur de boyaux," terms equivalent in English to "Scrapegut."1862 September 6, “Paganini's Ghost”, in The Musical World, volume 40, number 36, page 565

Forms of scrapegut

pluralscrapeguts

Origin of scrapegut

From scrape + gut (“intestines of an animal used to make strings”).

Questions about scrapegut

What does scrapegut mean?
Scrapegut means a fiddler.
What part of speech is scrapegut?
Scrapegut is a noun.
What is the plural of scrapegut?
The plural of scrapegut is scrapeguts.

Words near scrapegut in the dictionary

  1. scraped the barrel
  2. scraped the bottom of the barrel
  3. scraped through
  4. scraped together
  5. scraped up
  6. scrapegut
  7. scrapeguts
  8. scrapeless
  9. scraper
  10. scraperboard
  11. scraperboards

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