scratcher
See also: Scratcher
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Noun
scratcher (plural scratchers)
- Someone who scratches.
- A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
- A scratch card.
- (slang) A bed. (etymology: rhyming slang, rhymes with "scratch your head") usage references: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5])
- (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
- (slang) A counterfeiter.
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Verb
scratcher
- (Quebec, colloquial) to scratch, to make a scratch
Conjugation
Conjugation of scratcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | scratcher | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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