bread and scrape

English

Noun

bread and scrape (uncountable)

  1. Bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.
    • 1887, Alice King, The strange story at Lee, page 64:
      That's very nicely done indeed, not bread and scrape, nor yet more butter than bread, as some of those wasteful huzzies, the servant girls, cut it.

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
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