scrapey

comparative more scrapey · superlative most scrapey

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of scrapy.

   There’s a variety of adequate tunes, although I’d have preferred something a bit more skate-thrash, myself. The effects are gnarly enough, with some good, scrapey sounds.

   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

   2 more examples

   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.

   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

   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.

   2006, Michael Gray, “Rivera, Scarlet [19?? - ]”, in The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.; London: Continuum, →ISBN, page 579, column 2