scratchitti

English

Etymology

Blend of scratch +‎ graffiti

Noun

scratchitti pl (plural only)

1. A form of graffiti that is scratched or etched into a surface, especially one of glass or plexiglass.
   • 2000, New IDEAS for Transit, page 39:

     Stage 2 is to develop a well-controlled scratchitti removal instrument or tool for manual operation and test it on NYCT rail transit cars.

   • 2008, Carl Capotorto, Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir, page 14:

     The singer seemed somewhat alarmed by my desperate scratchitti but smiled gamely and said he was flattered.

   • 2014, Gerald Hansen, An Embarrassment of Riches:

     They had had to make do with the weed killer and scratchitti.

   • 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, page 64:

     You were hiding out in the sweet-foul stench of a bathroom stall, gazing emptily at the scratchitti of various sexual positions someone had etched into the aluminum, as you tried to hold fast to the sweet image of Rebekkah's eyes on yours.