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scrab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk?æb/
- Rhymes: -æb
Etymology 1
Middle French and Old French schrabben (“to scrape, scratch”), from Frankish *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skaban?, from Proto-Indo-European *skab?- (“to scratch”); compare Old High German skaban, Irish scríobann and sgrìoban.
Verb
scrab (third-person singular simple present scrabs, present participle scrabbing, simple past and past participle scrabbed)
- (transitive) To scrape or scratch.
Derived terms
- scrabbed eggs
- scrabber
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English scrabbe, variant of crabbe (“crabapple”); ultimately of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect scrabba, krabbäpple.
Noun
scrab (plural scrabs)
- A crabapple.
Anagrams
- carbs, cbars, crabs
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scrat
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish kratta (“to rake”).
Verb
scrat (third-person singular simple present scrats, present participle scratting, simple past and past participle scratted)
- (obsolete) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:
- Euclio […] as he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen, an ill sign […].
- , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:
- (obsolete, Britain) To rake; to search.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International 1992, p.89
- He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International 1992, p.89
Etymology 2
Compare Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), Aguano scrut (“a scrub, a low, mean person”).
Noun
scrat (plural scrats)
- (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Skinner to this entry?)
Etymology 3
Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti.
Noun
scrat (plural scrats)
- (obsolete) A devil.
Related terms
- Old Scratch
Anagrams
- C-rats, CARTs, Carts, SCART, carts, crats, scart
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