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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Scrapped up

I carried the whole thing in tiffins to work where I fed the happy colleagues. As they scraped up the last bits of chicken into their mouths, one of them waved a fork at me. "There's too much laung in the rice."

Please explain to me the highlighted parts.

Though I guess it means "chewed up".

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No, it means they used some implement (say a spoon), or possibly their fingers, to scrape the chicken off the containers or plates and into their mouths. The author seems to be using "tiffin" to mean some kind of container. I am not certain that this is wrong, but I can't find this meaning in any dictionary.

— Mr Wordy

  • No, it means they used some implement (say a spoon), or possibly their fingers, to scrape the chicken off the containers or plates and into their mouths.
  • The author seems to be using "tiffin" to mean some kind of container.
  • I am not certain that this is wrong, but I can't find this meaning in any dictionary.
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No, it means they used some implement (say a spoon), or possibly their fingers, to scrape the chicken off the containers or plates and into their mouths.

The author seems to be using "tiffin" to mean some kind of container. I am not certain that this is wrong, but I can't find this meaning in any dictionary.
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