"scrat" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /skɹæt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrat.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scrats [plural]
Rhymes: -æt Etymology: Compare Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), which had an earlier sense of "effeminate person, castrated man," presumably related to sċieran (“to cut”). Liberman notes that Germanic glossators, not familiar with Ovid, did not know exactly how to translate Latin hermaphroditus and instead matched it with more native words related to sexual deficiencies. Etymology templates: {{cog|ang|scritta||a hermaphrodite}} Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), {{cog|la|Hermaphroditus|hermaphroditus}} Latin hermaphroditus Head templates: {{en-noun}} scrat (plural scrats)
  1. (obsolete) A hermaphrodite. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-scrat-en-noun-MBWaRnLR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 41 2 36
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /skɹæt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrat.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scrats [plural]
Rhymes: -æt Etymology: From Middle English scrat, from Old English *scrætt, from Proto-Germanic *skrattuz (“troll, forest monster”). Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scrat}} Middle English scrat, {{inh|en|ang|*scrætt}} Old English *scrætt, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*skrattuz|t=troll, forest monster}} Proto-Germanic *skrattuz (“troll, forest monster”), {{cog|de|Schratt}} German Schratt, {{cog|non|skratti}} Old Norse skratti Head templates: {{en-noun}} scrat (plural scrats)
  1. (obsolete) A devil. Tags: obsolete Related terms: Old Scratch
    Sense id: en-scrat-en-noun-cAO~KoCq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 41 2 36 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 24 50 3 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 55 3 21
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Verb

IPA: /skɹæt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-scrat.wav [Southern-England] Forms: scrats [present, singular, third-person], scratting [participle, present], scratted [participle, past], scratted [past]
Rhymes: -æt Etymology: From Middle English scratten. Further etymology uncertain; apparently related to cratch, from Middle English cratchen, cracchen (“to scratch”), alteration of *cratsen (“to scratch”). The root is Germanic and may be inherited from Proto-West Germanic. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krattōną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gred-, *grod- (“to scratch, scrape”); ultimately onomatopoeic in origin (compare crush, crow). From a surface analysis, maybe related to Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“scraps, shreds”); also Old English scrama (“scratch”), among other Germanic roots beginning with *skr- (cf. scrape). Compare related Old Swedish kratta (“to scratch”), Swedish kratta (“to rake”), Danish kratte (“to scratch”), Icelandic krota (“to engrave”); Old Norse *kratsa, Danish kradse (“to scratch, scrape, claw”), Swedish kratsa (“to scratch”), Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”); Dutch kratsen (“to scratch”), Low German kratten, Old High German krazzōn, crazōn (“to scratch”), Middle Low German krassen, kratsen, German kratzen (“to scratch”), Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”). According to SAOB, a related word is apparently Old Swedish kraza (“to quarrel, to fight”), which could suggest a relation to English craze, from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|scratten}} Middle English scratten, {{unc|en|nocap=1}} uncertain, {{cog|enm|cratchen}} Middle English cratchen, {{der|en|gem-pro|*krattōną|t=to scratch}} Proto-Germanic *krattōną (“to scratch”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*gred-}} Proto-Indo-European *gred-, {{onomatopoeic|en|nocap=1}} onomatopoeic, {{cog|gem-pro|*skraudō||scraps, shreds}} Proto-Germanic *skraudō (“scraps, shreds”), {{cog|ang|scrama||scratch}} Old English scrama (“scratch”), {{cog|gmq-osw|kratta||to scratch}} Old Swedish kratta (“to scratch”), {{cog|sv|kratta||to rake}} Swedish kratta (“to rake”), {{cog|da|kratte||to scratch}} Danish kratte (“to scratch”), {{cog|is|krota||to engrave}} Icelandic krota (“to engrave”), {{cog|non|*kratsa}} Old Norse *kratsa, {{cog|da|kradse||to scratch, scrape, claw}} Danish kradse (“to scratch, scrape, claw”), {{cog|sv|kratsa||to scratch}} Swedish kratsa (“to scratch”), {{cog|is|krassa||to scrawl}} Icelandic krassa (“to scrawl”), {{cog|nl|kratsen||to scratch}} Dutch kratsen (“to scratch”), {{cog|nds|kratten}} Low German kratten, {{cog|goh|krazzōn}} Old High German krazzōn, {{cog|gml|krassen}} Middle Low German krassen, {{cog|de|kratzen||to scratch}} German kratzen (“to scratch”), {{cog|sq|gërresë|t=rasp, scraper}} Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”), {{cog|gmq-osw|kraza||to quarrel, to fight}} Old Swedish kraza (“to quarrel, to fight”), {{cog|en|craze}} English craze, {{cog|non|*krasa||to shatter}} Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} scrat (third-person singular simple present scrats, present participle scratting, simple past and past participle scratted)
  1. (obsolete) To scratch or scrape. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-scrat-en-verb-WplA6rtK
  2. (obsolete, UK) To rake; to search. Tags: UK, obsolete
    Sense id: en-scrat-en-verb-rfVt7MG- Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English onomatopoeias Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 41 2 36 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "Middle English cratchen",
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    },
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        "4": "scratch"
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        "4": "to scratch"
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        "4": "to scratch"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish kratte (“to scratch”)",
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        "1": "is",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to engrave"
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      "expansion": "Icelandic krota (“to engrave”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "expansion": "Old Norse *kratsa",
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to scratch, scrape, claw"
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to scrawl"
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "kratsen",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to scratch"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch kratsen (“to scratch”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nds",
        "2": "kratten"
      },
      "expansion": "Low German kratten",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "krazzōn"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German krazzōn",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gml",
        "2": "krassen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German krassen",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "kratzen",
        "3": "",
        "4": "to scratch"
      },
      "expansion": "German kratzen (“to scratch”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "gërresë",
        "t": "rasp, scraper"
      },
      "expansion": "Albanian gërresë (“rasp, scraper”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to quarrel, to fight"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Swedish kraza (“to quarrel, to fight”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "craze"
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      "expansion": "English craze",
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    },
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to shatter"
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        "(obsolete) To scratch or scrape."
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        "To rake; to search."
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        "(obsolete, UK) To rake; to search."
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        "A devil."
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