"scrapey" meaning in English

See scrapey in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more scrapey [comparative], most scrapey [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} scrapey (comparative more scrapey, superlative most scrapey)
  1. Alternative spelling of scrapy. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: scrapy
    Sense id: en-scrapey-en-adj-3gIiPYjU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1994 March, James Binns, “Skate or Die”, in Frank O’Connor, editor, Total!, number 27, Bath, Somerset: Future Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73, column 1:",
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          "ref": "2005, Robert Douglas, “Scared Stiff on a Saturday Night”, in Night Song of the Last Tram: A Glasgow Memoir, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 141:",
          "text": "Slowly, the handle on the only door to his room began to turn. We all knew that the room on the other side was empty – except for the newly purchased skeleton! As the handle turned we heard boney, scrapey sounds. I could feel the hair begin to stand on my head and the back of my neck.",
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          "ref": "2006, Michael Gray, “Rivera, Scarlet [19?? - ]”, in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.; London: Continuum, →ISBN, page 579, column 2:",
          "text": "She was capable of duetting with Dylan’s harmonica as few other players of any instrument have, so that these two thin, vibrant, scrapey sounds sparked spontaneous dancing lines off each other, mimicked each other, flirting in quick flashes, to a degree that is all too utterly absent from any Dylan on stage performance in the 21st century.",
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