Scarper vs Scraper - What's the difference?
scarper | scraper |
(British, slang) To run away; to flee; to escape.
* 1904 , John Coleman, Fifty years of an actors? life , Volume 1,
* 2001 , Ardal O'Hanlon, Knick Knack Paddy Whack ,
* 2007 , , [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2132043,00.html]
An instrument with which anything is scraped.
An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it.
An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, similar to a plow, that is used for scraping up earth in making or repairing roads, digging cellars, building canals, etc.
An instrument having two or three sharp sides or edges for cleaning the planks, masts, or decks of a ship.
In the printing press, a board or blade, the edge of which is made to rub over the tympan sheet, thus producing an impression.
One who scrapes horns.
One who plays awkwardly on a violin.
One who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
Scraper is a anagram of scarper.
As a verb scarper
is to run away; to flee; to escape.As a noun scraper is
an instrument with which anything is scraped.scarper
English
Verb
(en verb)page 54,
- Out went the lights, as he continued, "That sneak Whiskers have just blown the gaff to old Slow-Coach, and he'll be here in two two's to give you beans — so scarper', laddies — ' scarper ! "
page 7,
- The tramps scarpered', the street-traders pushing prams '''scarpered''', half of Dublin ' scarpered as if they all had something to hide.
- Helm writes: 'As if she were some street criminal, ready to scarper , Ruth's home was swooped upon by [Assistant Commissioner John] Yates's men and she was forced to dress in the presence of a female police officer.
