Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Scratch
Origin of Scratch
Middle English scracchen probably blend of scratten to scratch and cracchen to scratch (possibly from Middle Dutch cratsen)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably from a blend of the Middle English words scratten (“to scratch") and crachen (“to scratch").
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Scratch Sentence Examples
You told me you were tired of trying to scratch out a living from this ranch.
Was he telling her to scratch Josh's name off her list?
Now scratch this one so there are two messages!
The crystals look like antimony, and are brittle, and so hard as to scratch glass and rubies; their specific gravity is 4.25.
She threatened to scratch my eyes out if I touched her.
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