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scrat - What does it mean?

Definition of 'scrat'

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish .

Verb

(scratt)
  • (obsolete) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:
  • *:Euclioas he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen , an ill sign […].
  • (obsolete|UK) To rake; to search.
  • * 1978 , A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden , Vintage International 1992, p.89
  • He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.

    Etymology 2

    Compare Anglo-Saxon (scritta) an hermaphrodite, Irish (scrut) a scrub, a low, mean person.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.
  • (Skinner)
    (Webster 1913)

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