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English
Verb
scrattle (third-person singular simple present scrattles, present participle scrattling, simple past and past participle scrattled)
- To scratch.
- 1738, The London Magazine, rev. Mr. Darwall, to Mr. George Bickham, "On the First Volume of his Musical Entertainer"; page 303
- But if I'm duly sensible of this,
- And if I really fear to do amiss,
- How, George, how (in the name of wonder!) then,
- Dares my poor, puny, scurvy, scrattling pen
- Presume thy neat performances to trace,
- And, with mean words, thy beauteous works debase
- To make shift, to manage to get along.
2010, Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson, Nella Last in the 1950s: Further diaries of Housewife, 49:My husband says “What's the good of scrattling and saving, Edna, when in two–three years we might all be blown up by an atom bomb?
- (intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle.
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