Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With scratching action.
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- adverb With a
scratching motion or action.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whatever happened in that relationship, it was clothes-rippingly, back-scratchingly passionate.
Eagles fans welcome McNabb back to Philadelphia Dan Steinberg 2010
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Stabenow already has an impressive 32 fellow Democrats on board with her plan, although the language setting it out the budget resolution is head-scratchingly vague -- a typical feature of the symbolic "reserve funds" that many senators add to budget resolutions with little hope of the provision actually turning into law.
Stimulus 2009
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How did it come to pass that such a system grew and flourished where the set up is so head - scratchingly inequitable?
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Stabenow already has an impressive 32 fellow Democrats on board with her plan, although the language setting it out the budget resolution is head-scratchingly vague -- a typical feature of the symbolic "reserve funds" that many senators add to budget resolutions with little hope of the provision actually turning into law.
Senate 2009
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The most head-scratchingly eccentric of all Britons to currently hold any kind of public office?
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Stabenow already has an impressive 32 fellow Democrats on board with her plan, although the language setting it out the budget resolution is head-scratchingly vague -- a typical feature of the symbolic "reserve funds" that many senators add to budget resolutions with little hope of the provision actually turning into law.
Stabenow: 'We're Talking' About My Green-Collar Jobs Plan For Stimulus 2009
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His advice can be brutally honest (“Sex is what happens between a man and a woman who are in love and care about each other … or who were drunk in a pub”) or head-scratchingly bizarre (“When a 320-pound man plagued with eczema wants to be spanked by a gorgeous Czech girl, no amount of begging or pleading is going to make that happen”), but it always rings true.
Comedy: Culture and Celebrity Murrieta, Peter 2009
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Meanwhile, just as head-scratchingly, the same media that typically treat female politicians like little girls playing dress-up and subject politicians of color to racist screeds and reflexive dismissal were getting all hot and bothered imagining a Clinton-Obama race for the Oval Office ... and telling America that this wasn't only possible, it was the most probable outcome.
Jennifer L. Pozner: Super Tuesday Media Musings, Part I: Why Media Forced Edwards Out of the Race 2008
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As for bad Christmas presents ... looking at this pattern, even the most head-scratchingly bad presents I ever got pale in comparison.
Only Rita Could Get Me To Blog About Pants - A Dress A Day 2008
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As for bad Christmas presents ... looking at this pattern, even the most head-scratchingly bad presents I ever got pale in comparison.
December 2008 2008
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