Meaning

9 senses
  1. Someone who scratches.

    a person who scratches to relieve an itch

  2. A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.

  3. An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats.

    Near-synonym: scratching post

  4. A scratch card.

  5. (slang)A bedding place (e.g., mattress, bunk, hay bed, or bed).

    Near-synonym: pallet

  6. Any rasorial bird.

  7. (slang)A counterfeiter.

  8. (derogatory, slang)An unlicensed tattoo artist.

  9. A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. I need a back scratcher.

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  2. I have a wooden back-scratcher whose tip is carved in the shape of a hand.

    deIch habe einen Rückenkratzer aus Holz mit einer Spitze, geschnitzt in Form einer Hand.

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Origin

From scratch + -er.

From scratch + -er.

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Forms

plural: scratchers
Singularscratcher
Pluralscratchers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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