— raspish , adj.
/rasp, rahsp/ , v.t.
1. to scrape or abrade with a rough instrument.
2. to scrape or rub roughly: The glacier rasped the valley floor.
3. to grate upon or irritate: The sound rasped his nerves.
4. to utter with a grating sound: to rasp out an answer.
v.i.
5. to scrape or grate.
6. to make a grating sound.
n.
7. an act of rasping.
8. a rasping sound.
9. a coarse file, used mainly on wood, having separate conical teeth.
10. (in an insect) a roughened surface used in stridulation.
[ 1200-50; ME raspen rasper to scrape, grate 3 ]