Sometimes used in American colleges.
In order to quiet him, we had to send for his factotum or scout, an old black fellow.—Yale Lit. Mag., Vol. XI. p. 282.
SCRAPE. To insult by drawing the feet over the floor.—Grose.
But in a manner quite uncivil,
They hissed and scraped him like the devil.
Rebelliad, p. 37.
"I do insist,"
Quoth he, "that two, who scraped and hissed,
Shall be condemned without a jury
To pass the winter months in rure."—Ibid., p. 41.
They not unfrequently rose to open outrage or some personal molestation, as casting missiles through his windows at night, or "scraping him" by day.—A Tour through College, Boston, 1832, p. 25.
SCRAPING. A drawing of, or the act of drawing, the feet over the floor, as an insult to some one, or merely to cause disturbance; a shuffling of the feet.
New lustre was added to the dignity of their feelings by the pathetic and impressive manner in which they expressed them, which was by stamping and scraping majestically with their feet, when in the presence of the detested tutors.—Don Quixotes at College, 1807.
The morning and evening daily prayers were, on the next day (Thursday), interrupted by scraping, whistling, groaning, and other disgraceful noises.—Circular, Harvard College, 1834, p. 9.
This word is used in the universities and colleges of both England and America.