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Rasping

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A particle rasped off from a body or mass of matter. Compare filing, 2.
  • Characterized by grating or scraping: as, a rasping sound; hence, irritating; exasperating.
  • In hunting, said of a fence difficult to take.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. raspy
  • verb. Present participle of rasp.
  • noun. A rasping sound
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  • noun. uttering in an irritated tone
  • adjective. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
  • Word Usage
    "There's no attention to the clitoris, nor is their foreplay — just this karate-chop style stuffing over and over again, usually while she's so dry you can hear her skin rasping like sandpaper."
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