scratching
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scratching
- /ˈskɹæt͡ʃɪŋ/
Rhymes with -ætʃɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of scratch
noun scratchings
- The act or sound of something being scratched. We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
- A pork scratching. 'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
- Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
- A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips. We all had a portion of chips and one fish was shared between all of us. Sometimes the lady serving would give us a free bag of scratchings (the bits of batter).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: scraping, scrape, sharp, dragging, picking, rubbing, scouring, abrading, rasping, scoring, nicking, etching, chafing, incising, clawing, raking
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