-scraper
English
editEtymology
editBack-formation from skyscraper.
Suffix
edit-scraper
- Denoting a type of tall building.
- farm + -scraper → farmscraper (“a high-rise building used for growing crops or raising livestock”)
- skinny + -scraper → skinnyscraper (“an extremely tall and narrow building”)
- sea + -scraper → seascraper (“a tall building built underwater”)