n
(UK dialectal) A scab; a dry sore.
n
Alternative spelling of backscratcher [A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch their own back.]
n
Alternative form of barber's itch [(medicine) Any of a number of sorts of rashes or skin eruptions in the area of the mustache or beard, caused by fungal or staphylococcal infections or by irritation from shaving.]
v
To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
v
(intransitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To become hard or form a crust, like bark.
v
(transitive) To scratch or tear all over with claws or nails.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To scrape all over; scrape excessively.
v
(transitive) To scratch; scratch about; scratch all over.
v
(transitive) To cover (something) with scrawls; to scribble over.
v
To write in a messy, scribbly fashion.
v
(transitive) To scrub around or about; scrub completely or all over.
n
(informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
v
(intransitive) To heave.
n
An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
v
(obsolete) To poke or prick
v
(transitive) To cause bruises to appear, usually by beating or battering.
v
To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
n
(obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.
adj
Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
v
To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
n
(informal, idiomatic) Cramped or illegible handwriting.
v
(obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
v
(transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To fill cracks in something, for example a wall.
v
(intransitive) To become chipped.
v
(transitive, Britain, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
v
(computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
n
(engineering) The holding of an object in a chuck.
n
(obsolete) The itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), which infects the skin.
n
(slang, derogatory) A Scientologist.
v
(intransitive, slang) To become silent; to stop talking, to shut up.
n
A scratch with the claws.
v
(obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.
v
To break into bends, turns, or angles; to crinkle.
n
(obsolete) A grated crib or manger.
v
(intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation.
n
A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected.
v
(transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.
n
A tactile illusion where tapping separate regions of a person's skin in rapid succession (e.g. the elbow and the forearm) gives the impression of sequential taps "hopping" from one point to the next, even though the intermediate points were never touched.
n
The act by which something is dabbed.
n
(literally) A firework that has been wet and therefore fails to go off correctly.
n
Action of the verb to felch.
v
To break or chip off in a flake.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To scrape or pare (a skin, etc.).
n
A person or machine that creates frills.
v
(transitive) To wrinkle.
n
The action of something that is gnashed.
v
(obsolete, Scotland) To nip, bite; to champ at the bit
v
(obsolete) to rub, bruise, crush
n
(originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
v
(transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To fish on the grabble.
v
(transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
v
To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.
v
To produce a grinding or scraping sound.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
v
(dialectal) Alternative form of grub [To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.]
v
(intransitive, archaic, rare) To grope about.
n
A small quantity; a scraping of anything.
n
Alternative form of head-scratching. [(idiomatic) Confusion.]
n
A device used to scratch the head.
n
Alternative form of head-scratcher [A device used to scratch the head.]
v
(transitive) To scour, as a floor, with hearthstone.
n
(informal) A rare, painful itching reaction to sunburn.
n
Sarcoptes scabiei, a parasitic arthropod that burrows into the skin and causes scabies.
n
Something that causes itching
n
(colloquial) An itchy or fidgety condition.
n
A sensation that itches.
n
A powder that induces itching when applied to the skin.
adv
With an itching sensation.
adj
Like an itch; similar to a rash or skin irritation that causes itching.
n
(idiomatic) A strong desire to travel; wanderlust.
n
A cutaneous condition caused by sheep ked.
n
The sound of something falling, especially when hitting water.
v
(Northern England) To bite gently, nibble.
n
Light tickling often accompanied by an itching sensation.
v
(intransitive) To perform kriging of data.
n
(UK, slang, archaic) A young surgeon.
n
(medicine) referred itch: the phenomenon in which a stimulus applied in one region of the body is felt as an itch or irritation in a different part of the body.
v
(obsolete, nonce word, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
v
(transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
v
(intransitive) To search mullock for opals; to fossick.
v
(transitive, rare) To scrape out
v
To scrape clean, as in parchment, for reuse.
n
The act by which something is patted.
v
(transitive) To dig or uproot; to scrape.
n
A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet, or of rain on a rooftop.
n
(countable) The sound of something solid landing.
adj
(informal) Making a plopping sound.
n
The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
adj
(of consumer goods) Having an undesirable scratch or scratches at the time of acquisition.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To pinch or wrinkle; to squeeze inwardly, to dimple or fold.
v
(UK, regional) To poke around a hole with a stick, as to explore, remove obstacles, etc.
v
(obsolete, intransitive) To stir; to act as if in pain, wince.
v
(music, obsolete) To add syncopation (to a tune) and thereby make it appropriate for a ragtime song.
n
(obsolete) A scraping; a shaving.
n
Alternative form of rascette [(obsolete, anatomy) The wrist.]
v
To hack, slash, or slice (something).
v
(intransitive) To use a rasp.
n
(now rare, law) Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
v
(regional) To scratch or score.
v
(transitive) To scrape as if with a razor.
v
(Scotland) Alternative form of risp [To rub together, to rasp or grate.]
v
(transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
n
A rubbing or grating together.
v
(Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.
v
(Northern England, Scotland) Alternative form of rit [(Northern England, Scotland) To scratch or score.]
n
(obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To reduce (something) to a powder or paste using friction (with a mortar and pestle, for example); to mix (with something) using friction.
v
(UK, dialect) To rub; to polish.
v
(Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
v
(transitive, surgery) To scrape or rasp (a bone etc.); to scale.
v
(Scotland, transitive) To grind, as with the teeth; to crunch.
v
(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
v
(intransitive) To act as a strikebreaker.
v
(computing) To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.
v
(UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
v
(transitive) To work roughly, or shape without finishing, as stone before leaving the quarry.
v
To break up, loosen, or roughen the surface of a field or road or a hard surface.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) dung
v
(earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment
v
Alternative form of scarf (make a joint in woodworking) [To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.]
v
(Scotland, transitive) To scratch or scrape.
n
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A stilt.
v
(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.
n
Obsolete spelling of scat (“tax, tribute”) [A tax; tribute.]
v
To act as a scavenger, to scavenge.
v
(transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
v
(transitive) To reduce (an ore) to scoria.
n
The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
v
(transitive) To cut or score; to wound superficially.
n
(slang, now historical) Scabies; an itch.
n
Diarrhea. (Now used only of livestock, though also sometimes used of humans into the 1600s.)
v
Obsolete spelling of scour [(transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.]
v
(transitive) To scrape or scratch.
n
A sound or motion that scrabbles.
n
A player of the word game Scrabble.
v
(UK, dialect) To be industrious.
v
(obsolete, colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to choke, garotte, or strangle.
n
A cheap primal cut of lamb or mutton that comes from the forepart of the neck and is typically used in soups or stews.
v
(UK, transitive, Bristol, Birmingham) To scrape or graze (typically one's knee).
v
(UK, regional) To cry; to clobber; to conk.
n
(Derbyshire, Wales) A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
v
(obsolete) To scrape (something) together with the hands.
v
(UK, dialect, transitive) To catch at; to snatch.
v
(transitive) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.
v
(idiomatic, with on or with) to barely be able to survive
v
Alternative form of bow and scrape [To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.]
v
(intransitive) To only afford the essentials; to barely sustain oneself.
v
Alternative form of scrape the bottom of the barrel. [(idiomatic) To settle for a poor option due to a lack or unavailability of anything better]
v
(idiomatic) To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty
v
(transitive) to gather together something needed (especially money)
n
The sound or action of something being scraped.
v
Alternative form of bowing and scraping
adv
With a scraping sound or motion.
n
The practice of scrapping something.
v
To scrape or grub around.
v
(obsolete) To scratch; to use one's nails or claws.
v
To earn barely enough money to live.
v
(idiomatic) To satisfy a need or desire.
v
Synonym of scratch beneath the surface
v
(idiomatic) To get by; make ends meet
v
To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands.
v
(idiomatic) To barely begin; to see or do only a fraction of what is possible.
v
(idiomatic) To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty; to scrape together.
adj
Alternative spelling of scratch made. [Made from scratch.]
n
(UK, dated) A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
n
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A scratch card.
n
A wooden post, wrapped in a piece of carpet (or similar material), that a domestic cat is encouraged to scratch (rather than the furniture).
adv
With a scratching motion or action.
n
A form of graffiti that is scratched into a surface, rather than drawn or painted.
adj
Characterised or marked by scratching or scratchiness
adj
(chiefly of a sore throat) Annoying, irritating, itchy.
n
(Ireland, uncountable) Sod.
v
Alternative form of scranch [(transitive) To grind with the teeth, and with a crackling sound; to craunch.]
v
(UK, dialect, transitive) To tear or scratch.
n
Alternative form of scray (“type of bird”) [A tern; the sea swallow.]
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete, transitive) To graze (a body part).
v
(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To rend, to shred, to tear.
n
(computing) A form of web scraping in which a program visually captures and processes data from a webpage.
v
(transitive, computing) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
v
Alternative spelling of screen-scrape [(transitive, computing) To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.]
v
(obsolete, UK, slang) To write.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To card or tease (wool) coarsely; to run through a scribbler.
n
Scribbly writing or drawing; scrawl.
n
A screed; a shred; a fragment.
v
(UK, dialect) to squirm, wriggle or squiggle
v
(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.
v
(transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
v
(intransitive) To make a handicraft of scrimshaw.
n
The act of scratching an itch.
adj
Making a scritch sound.
n
(Scotland) Alternative spelling of scrog [A stunted or shrivelled bush.]
v
(Internet slang) To publish one's media consumption habits to the Internet via software, in order to track when and how often certain items are played.
v
(transitive) To mottle (pottery) with scraps of differently coloured clays.
v
(intransitive) To crouch, or hunker down.
v
To make sounds such as of a chair on the floor or chalk on a blackboard.
v
Alternative spelling of scrooch [(intransitive) To crouch, or hunker down.]
v
(UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.
n
(in the plural) Material that has been scrounged.
n
(obsolete) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
v
Alternative form of scrouge (“to crowd; squeeze”) [(UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.]
v
(audio) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
v
Alternative form of scrouge (“to crowd; squeeze”) [(UK, dialect and US, colloquial, transitive) To crowd; to squeeze.]
n
(Canada) A tightly packed group of reporters surrounding a person, usually a politician, asking for comments about an issue; an opportunity provided for a politician to be approached this way.
n
A small piece of freeform crochet or knitting that can be joined to make a larger piece of freeform work.
v
To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
n
Alternative form of scrunchion [(Canada, Newfoundland, usually in the plural) A small piece of pork rind or fatback fried until rendered and crispy.]
v
To scour (search) desperately for resources such as food or equipment.
v
(now dialectal) To squeeze.
n
(Bristol) A scab on a wound.
v
To hit lightly, to brush against.
v
(transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To accuse (someone) of wrongdoing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.
v
(intransitive, obsolete, UK, dialect) To move hastily; to scour.
n
(medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
v
(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) To beat or whip; to drub.
v
(obsolete) To scratch; to rub.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
n
Alternative form of ciron [(obsolete) The itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), which infects the skin.]
n
(Scotland, law, obsolete) Alternative form of scathe (“damage”) [(countable, uncountable) Damage, harm, hurt, injury.]
v
Obsolete spelling of scathe [(archaic or Scotland) To harm or injure (someone or something) physically.]
n
(colloquial, humorous, euphemistic) A visible feces stain left on underpants, trousers, or sometimes the toilet bowl.
v
(US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
n
Alternative spelling of scran. [(UK, Ireland, slang) Food, especially that of an inferior quality; grub.]
n
Alternative spelling of scrilla [(slang, Bay Area African-American Vernacular and Chicano) Money]
v
Alternative spelling of scrimmage [To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.]
v
Alternative form of scringe [(dialect, UK and US, intransitive) To cringe.]
v
(transitive, Scotland) To besmear.
v
(Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
v
(transitive, Northern English) To use a spelk in or on.
n
(countable, dated) A heavy blow or fall.
v
(colloquial, dated, transitive, intransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.
n
(parachuting) An improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth. The action of "to squid".
n
Alternative form of squilgee [A squeegee; a scraper for removing liquid.]
n
(military slang) A person, presumed to be hostile, who absconds upon the approach of (Western) soldiers.
v
(dialectal) To choke; throttle.
n
(obsolete) scraping; that which is scraped off
v
(obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.
v
Obsolete form of surbate. [(obsolete) To bruise, hurt (the feet, hooves etc.) from walking.]
n
Alternative form of ciron [(obsolete) The itch-mite (Sarcoptes scabiei), which infects the skin.]
n
(UK, dialect) A sheaf; a handful.
v
(UK, dialect, obsolete) To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
n
(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Alternative spelling of thrapple [(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.]
n
A sensation that tickles.
adj
Producing an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
n
(archaic) A combat requiring arduous effort.
n
A tingling sensation; pins and needles.
v
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
n
(computing) The scraping of data from websites
n
(Scotland) itch, a prickly feeling
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