scrat

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He's had all night to do it in, and there he has been scrat, scrat, scrat, scrat at his neck with those fore-paws of his, till he got it loose and pushed it over his head Nonsense!"

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  1. To scratch. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] I will scrat out those eyes That taught him first to lust. Gascoigne, Philomene (Steele Glas, etc., ed. Arber), p. 105.
  2. To scratch. Thet child … thet scratteth aʒenn, and bit [biteth] upon the ʒerde. Ancren Riwle, p. 186.
  3. To rake; search. Ambitious mind a world of wealth would haue, So scrats, and scrapes, for scorfe and scornie drosse. Mir. for Mags., p. 506. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.]

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  1. Also, transposed, scart; from Middle English scratten, orig. *scarten, scratch: see scartand shear. Cf. scratch, scrattle.
  2. Early modern English also skrat; from Middle English scrat, skrat, skratt, scratte, scart, scrayte, from Anglo-Saxon *scræt, an assumed form, for which is found the apparently deriv. scritta (for *scretta ?), in a once-occurring gloss, a hermaphrodite, apparently orig. a ‘monster,’ = Old High German scraz, also scrāz, Middle High German schraz, schrāz, also Old High German scrato, Middle High German schrate, schrat, German schratt, also Old High German Middle High German screz, a goblin, imp, dwarf, = Icelandic skratti, a goblin, wizard. Hence, from G., Slovenian shkrat, Bohemian skrzhet, shkratek, shkrzhitek = Polish skrzot, a goblin. Cf. scratch. It is possible that the Anglo-Saxon and English sense is due to some literary association with L. scratta, scrattia, scratia, scrapta, an epithet applied to an unchaste woman.
 

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