Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A mush of ground pork and cornmeal that is set in a mold and then sliced and fried.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To grub about.
- n. An article of food something like sausage-meat, made from scraps of pork, with liver, kidneys, etc., minced with herbs, stewed with rye-or corn-meal, and pressed into large cakes. when cold it is cut in slices and fried. It is of Pennsylvania-Dutch origin.
Wiktionary
- n. A tool for scraping.
- n. US, Appalachia A mush of pork scraps, particularly head parts, and cornmeal or flour, which is boiled and poured into a mold, where the rendered gelatinous broth from cooking jells the mixture into a loaf.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An article of food made by boiling together bits or scraps of meat, usually pork, and flour or Indian meal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
Etymologies
- Related to scrape. (Wiktionary)
- Diminutive of scrap1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If a person can only afford scrapple, is transportation the issue? industrialbiker”
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“Meanwhile, I was on a campaign to sell the idea of scrapple, a food that Mark had introduced me to, via his Amish friends in Pennsylvania.”
“I think I have a hankerin for a fausnaught and some scrapple.”
“Bowery lodging-houses and ate scrapple in East-Side feeding-dens, and, on more than one occasion, stood in the bread-line at midnight and pondered whether or not I should faint before I fed.”
“It was a hard-scrapple lifeto hear the stories now; Loyd liked to say that the Depression passed right on by without their knowing it because they were poor already.”
“The show does dip somewhat into history at each venue, such as explaining why the Greek-themed Vaso's Kitchen in Alexandria kept the landmark neon sign of its predecessor, Dixie Pig BBQ; or lending riot-era significance to the persistent Florida Avenue Grill in the District, which now finds itself serving scrapple to the gentrified masses of U Street's condoville.”
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“He was using absolutely every part of every product he butchered, and while his scrapple never really took off, his sausages were flying out the door.”
“Joe your killing me, I havn't had a WaWa Hoagie since December, much less pork roll or scrapple .........”
“It's probably compared to scrapple, with pinhead oats, beef, pork and etc.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scrapple’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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scraps
scray, scramble, scraggly, scrape, scree, scrap, scrape by, scratch, scratch out, scratch race, scratch up, scranny and 61 more...
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These Verbs Are Made of Meat
baconize, baconise, meatpacking, permeate, hambone hambone h..., spam, fillet, shank, mince, beef, chine, flank and 28 more...
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Are you from Pennsylvania?
List contains answers to the question: Are you from PA?
gum band, stillers, pahrits, sticker bush, crick, yinz, yoose, ohia, jumbo, knows the differe..., i can pronounce w..., sammich and 41 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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misterspee's Words
prolepsis, cumin, nacreous, lucre, obstreperous, nibble, nubbin, kenosis, frangible, aposiopesis, synecdoche, persiflage and 144 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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spamdad's Words
lambic, weizenbock, bock, zymurgy, vade mecum, quotidian, sesquipedalian, eremite, sphragis, privation, aegis, sui generis and 275 more...
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Angharad's Words
filtrum, aglet, cathect, anent, crepuscular, rigmarole, exert, liripipe, pekoe, perfuse, langerhans, vegemite and 41 more...
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memories
words that take me back
jitney, dulcinea, ebenezer, hammock, cribbage, manse, scenic route, catsup, horehound, commode, jujyfruits, scrapple and 4 more...
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Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
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Yuck
Icky, ooey things, grossness or sundry objectionables.
quaggy, gurry, trepan, head cheese, bodewash, casu marzu, lardon, balut, nidhoggr, tarantelli, dairy group, vesiga and 58 more...
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Fun Food Names2
sunchoke, coconut egg jam, apple butter, peppercorns, dried cloud ears, ham hocks, kippered cod, rutabaga, salsify, scallion, wild leek, seaweed sheets and 48 more...
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That's Just Offal
Edible organ meats and leftover parts.
blood sausage, blood pudding, black pudding, scrapple, brawn, headcheese, drob, giblets, chitlins, chitlings, chitterlings, haggis and 55 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scrapple.
madmouth ah, the glories of mystery meat
there are so many kinds over here; I'd start a list if I knew all their names. May 22, 2009
fbharjo Philadelphia's equivalent to menudo (especially with maple syrup) May 22, 2009
rolig They used to serve this to us in my elementary school. It always managed to make a bad day worse. May 3, 2009
myth everything but the oink May 3, 2009
bilby Yeah, I know, I'm fussy. Aug 5, 2008
reesetee What? You don't like a particular item of prepared food? Or even a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape? What's the matter with you guys?? Aug 5, 2008
shevek Wow, learning what this means just ruined bebop for me. Thanks, guys... Aug 5, 2008
plethora Ew. Aug 5, 2008
bilby Aarggh! Aug 5, 2008