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raped off skin...

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korenslang

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how do you call the old skin wich was raped off? (too lazy to look it up in a dictionary)this skin is of my anery/miss. red
 

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It's called a 'snake shed' as opposed to a 'snake skin,' which is what is removed after a snake is dead.
 
Ummm...korenslang...

I don't think you mean to use the word "raped" when referring to a snake shedding it's skin. A snake scrapes, or rubs, it's skin off. In English, the word "raped" means someone has forced another person to have sex against his or her will. I realize you are young, but I think you are old enough to know that you are using that word incorrectly.
 
Actually, the word "rape" has only relatively recently come to mean what it does in the English language. It comes from the Latin "rapare" which meant "to take away, to separate as if by force" (it's the same root word from which we get the term "raptor"), and the English word "rape" meant much the same thing for many centuries.

Of course, as we use the term here in the United States (and Britain as well, if I'm not mistaken), the term has exclusively come to mean the sexual crime of taking a woman by force. However, this is a very narrow usage of a word that has a broader meaning.

Though we here in the States would never use the word "rape" to describe a snake shedding its skin, the English word CAN be used in its more broad form in that very way. Korenslang (not a native English speaker and certainly not an expert in American English) was actually correct in his (?) usage of the word, even though that meaning is considered archaic by our standards in the U.S.
 
Whoops!

There goes my antiquated sexism again! As the term is used in American English, a "rape" is a crime that can be committed against a female OR a male.

Sorry about that --
 
When I saw the thread title I was like...what?!
I figured the person made a typing error and forgot the s (scraped)
I sure wasn't expecting a discussion of the word rape. hehe thanks though, I learned something new today.
anyway, as it has already been established, it's called a "snake shed" or a "shed skin." or just a "shed."
 
Thanks Darin...

I am 34 years old and have NEVER heard the word used any other way than as "a sexual crime." I also learned something today. Sorry korenslang! It would sound better, though, if you chose to use a different word:p
 
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