From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa and Old English scrapian, both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-. Cognate with Dutch schrapen, schrappen, schrabben, German schrappen, Danish skrabe, Icelandic skrapa, Walloon screper, Latin scribō.
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