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English
Verb
scratcht
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of scratch
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 294, column 2:Ile haue thy beauty ſcratcht with briers & made / More homely then thy ſtate.
1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “Of the famous Aduenture of Montesinos Caue, which is in the heart of Mancha, which the valerous Don Quixote happily accomplished”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. , London: for Edward Blount, →OCLC, page 143:[W]ho was the firſt man that ſcratcht his head, for I beleeue it was our firſt father Adam?
1671, [Richard Head (denies authorship); Francis Kirkman (purported)], The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants. The Second Part. , London: Francis Kirkman, , →OCLC, page 121:[I]f the hair netled, this fleyed, ſhe had needed to have had Briarius hundred hands to have ſcratcht her ſelf at once, for when ſhe came to be a little hot in her bed, ſhe fared like a mad woman; the more ſhe ſcratcht the more it itcht, ſo that by what ſhe ſeek’t to allay her paine, ſhe encreas’d it: […]