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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb obsolete To scratch.

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Examples

  • ‘Vous rêvez, mon cher,’ he interposed: ‘le commandeur n’a plus de dents, et il crache à chaque mot.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • Ile maudite! je te crache a la figure, vieille Angleterre!

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Ile maudite! je te crache a la figure, vieille Angleterre!

    Burlesques 2006

  • The crowd, soon uncomfortably larger, diverted itself by taking oratorical views of his guilt or innocence: but the prevailing opinion of the prisoner personally was expressed by one in an unfastidious proverb: "Grosse crache, grosse canaille."

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • And did she crache in Ocean's face, next Morn would see a change

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Frenchman's "_s'il crache il est perdu, _" "You know something of poor Mrs. Bradfort, I believe?"

    Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Dragon Balti qui crache pas du feu mais des mots de flammes ardent

    Dailymotion - most recent videos blacksquad 2009

  • So one should bear in mind the French proverb that goes :”Ne crache jamais dans un puits, un jour tu auras soif et tu en boiras.”

    The crowdsourced life « BuzzMachine 2008

  • And did she crache in Ocean’s face, next Morn would see a change

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Si les crachats sent epais et qu’il crache difficilement, en ce cas il prendra une ou deux fois le jour, demi dragme de blanc de baleine reduit on poudre avec un pen de sucre candit qu’il avalera avec une cuilleree d’eau.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

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