English
scrapy
From scrape + -y.
Formed from scrape + -y
Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- ‘to engrave’
Proto-Germanic *skrapōną ‘to scrape, scratch’
Old Norse skrapa ‘to scrape, scratch’
Middle English scrapen ‘to scrape’
English scrape
Today it means
adj Characteristic of a scraping sound or motion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / scrapy