Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To scratch.
- To scratch.
- To rake; search.
- n. A hermaphrodite.
- n. A devil: in the phrase Aud Scrat, Old Scratch. See scratch.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
- n. obsolete A hermaphrodite.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To scratch.
- v. obsolete To rake; to search.
- n. obsolete An hermaphrodite.
Etymologies
- Compare Anglo-Saxon scritta an hermaphrodite, Irish scrut a scrub, a low, mean person. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“No real comment but the word verification "scrat" was too good to pass up on this post.”
“Partly, because at the end of the second movie hadn't scrat "transcended"?”
“March 13th, 2007 at 12: 03 pm can i get any tips on how to improve my jumps or get to the second level on ice age scrat jump?”
“The earth for about six paces around the remains of the NylGhy, was, in their eagerness to devour it, scrat:”
“After a moment, the scrat shivered and looked up, its eyes bright.”
“It is dangerous for the scrat, but there is no other way, not in time.”
“Alucius observed as a thin line of golden green extended from the soarer to the scrat, as that golden green probe slipped around one of the largest nodes, just where the lifethread left the body of the rodent itself.”
“He'd killed hundreds, and he was worried about a scrat?”
“Even as he questioned, Alucius tried to find the nodes in the threads of the scrat, which remained calmly observing him.”
“He killed the scrat four times, and each time the soarer revived it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scrat’.
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Rats
rats, rat, tree-rat, pilori-rat, prorate, pro rata, Ratso Rizzo, ratfink, rat pack, Rat Pack, Rats!, rat race and 157 more...
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supernatural creatures according to M...
Turned this up on etymonline.com (link). It's amazing.
Hobbit (n.)
1937, coined in the fantasy tales of J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973).
On a blank leaf I scrawled: 'In a hole...ghost, boggle, bloody-bones, spirit, demon, ignis fatuus, brownie, bugbear, black dog, specter, shellycoat, scarecrow and 186 more...
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Rakes
rake, rakes, brakes, hale, as thin as a rake, rakehell, horserake, star-wheel rake, hand-rake, rake helly, A child sitting i..., sulky rake and 47 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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Arranged Words
cosmetic, cosmos, ranch, range, rank, rink, rucksack, crissum, circinate, circadian, circus, cirque and 51 more...
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Speak of the Devil
Different names for Old Boy, and other demons that might possess us.
vetala, mara, Lilith, dybbuk, incubus, succubus, bogle, boggart, wendigo, Asmodeus, diabolus, Belial and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for scrat.
madmouth We may strive and scrat and fend, but it's little we can do arter all
-"Silas Marner" Aug 12, 2010