scratcher

See also: Scratcher

English

Etymology

From scratch +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

scratcher (plural scratchers)

1. Someone who scratches.
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
4. (gambling) A scratch card.
5. (slang) A bed.
6. (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
7. (slang) A counterfeiter.
   • 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 93:

     “I’m what they used to call a scratcher,” the Ukrainian said. “Dupes, counterfeits, identification. Turn wrong names right.”

8. (slang, derogatory) An unlicensed tattoo artist.
9. A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.

Derived terms

• back scratcher
• booty scratcher
• head scratcher

Anagrams

• rescratch

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skʁat.ʃe/

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Verb

scratcher

1. (Quebec, colloquial) to scratch, to make a scratch

   Synonym: égratigner

Conjugation

Conjugation of scratcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scratcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scratchant /skʁat.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scratché /skʁat.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scratche /skʁatʃ/	scratches /skʁatʃ/	scratche /skʁatʃ/	scratchons /skʁat.ʃɔ̃/	scratchez /skʁat.ʃe/	scratchent /skʁatʃ/
	imperfect	scratchais /skʁat.ʃɛ/	scratchais /skʁat.ʃɛ/	scratchait /skʁat.ʃɛ/	scratchions /skʁat.ʃjɔ̃/	scratchiez /skʁat.ʃje/	scratchaient /skʁat.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	scratchai /skʁat.ʃe/	scratchas /skʁat.ʃa/	scratcha /skʁat.ʃa/	scratchâmes /skʁat.ʃam/	scratchâtes /skʁat.ʃat/	scratchèrent /skʁat.ʃɛʁ/
	future	scratcherai /skʁat.ʃə.ʁe/	scratcheras /skʁat.ʃə.ʁa/	scratchera /skʁat.ʃə.ʁa/	scratcherons /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	scratcherez /skʁat.ʃə.ʁe/	scratcheront /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scratcherais /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	scratcherais /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	scratcherait /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/	scratcherions /skʁat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	scratcheriez /skʁat.ʃə.ʁje/	scratcheraient /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	scratche /skʁatʃ/	scratches /skʁatʃ/	scratche /skʁatʃ/	scratchions /skʁat.ʃjɔ̃/	scratchiez /skʁat.ʃje/	scratchent /skʁatʃ/
	imperfect2	scratchasse /skʁat.ʃas/	scratchasses /skʁat.ʃas/	scratchât /skʁat.ʃa/	scratchassions /skʁat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	scratchassiez /skʁat.ʃa.sje/	scratchassent /skʁat.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scratche /skʁatʃ/	—	scratchons /skʁat.ʃɔ̃/	scratchez /skʁat.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “scratcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.