scratcher

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See also: Scratcher

English

Etymology

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. A scratch card.
  4. (slang) A bed. (etymology: rhyming slang, rhymes with "scratch your head") usage references: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5])
  5. (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
  6. (slang) A counterfeiter.
  7. (slang, derogatory) An unlicensed tattoo artist.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scratcher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

scratcher

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

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