Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrabbed
Literary usage of Scrabbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"scrabbed-eggs. A lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped and mixed,
with a seasoning of butter, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"scrabbed-EGGS. A lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped and mixed
with a seasoning of butter, salt, and pepper. SCRABBLE. (1) To scramble. ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"SCRAB, (1) v. To claw; to scratch. Hens serai a garden. East. (2) s. The crab-apple.
North. scrabbed-EGGS, ». Eggs boiled hard, chopped, and mixed with a ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Through Priscian'scrabbed rules, laborious task! 1 held my course, till the dull,
tiresome road Plac'd me on clastic ground, that well repaid The labours of ..."
5. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"Thin, poor, applied to silks or stuffs. Cornw. SCRAB, (1) ». To claw; to scratch.
Hens scrab a garden. East. (2) s. The crab-apple. North. scrabbed-EGGS, ». ..."
6. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"scrabbed-EGGS, s.pl. a lenten dish, composed of eggs boiled hard, chopped and
mixed, with a seasoning of butter, salt, and pepper. ..."
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