different between scrat vs scrit

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)

1. (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 […].

2. (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.

Etymology 2

Compare Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), Aguano scrut (“a scrub, a low, mean person”).

Noun

scrat (plural scrats)

1. (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.

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Etymology 3

Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti.

Noun

scrat (plural scrats)

1. (obsolete) A devil.

Related terms

• Old Scratch

Anagrams

• C-rats, CARTs, Carts, SCART, carts, crats, scart

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin scriptus.

Verb

scrit

1. past participle of scrivi

Related terms

• scritôr
• scriture

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin scriptus.

Verb

scrit (plural scric, feminine scrita, feminine plural scrites)

1. past participle of scriver

Middle English

Etymology

See script.

Noun

scrit

1. writing; document; scroll

References

• scrit at OneLook Dictionary Search
• scrit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• crits