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scrapeguts

scrapeguts is the plural of scrapegut.

Meaning of scrapegut

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

Questions about scrapeguts

What is scrapeguts the plural of?
Scrapeguts is the plural of scrapegut.

Words near scrapeguts in the dictionary

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

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