scritch
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8.8
- noun
- /skrɪtʃ/
:
rasguño
- He felt a small scritch on his arm after brushing against the rough bark of the tree.
Examples
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My compensation was an attaboy from the chair and a scritch behind the ears from my dean.
Blog text (29) -
For a time, there was hardly a sound but the scritch of nib on paper as she wrote.
Fiction book (1997) -
Then she moves faster, scritch-scratching head first down the tree.
Academic text (2011) -
The scritch of the shovel in wet earth—how could this be?—seemed to him unutterably sad.
Fiction book (1999) -
There is the little scritch of the lighter, then a long, thoughtful drag on the cigarette—the skinny kind, George notices, with pastel etchings around the filter.
Fiction book (2002) -
The cat enjoyed a gentle scritch behind its ears, purring with satisfaction.
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With a light scritch, she marked the surface of the paper, adding delicate details to her drawing.
Synonyms
468
1.0
A visible line, spot, scratch, or stain on a surface
203
1.6
A thin shallow mark on skin or a surface made by something sharp
41
4.8
An area of skin rubbed off by scraping
30
1.3
A mark on a surface caused by rubbing it against something hard
8
2.6
A scratch or mark made when one thing rubs another
4
3.4
A small scrape that removes the top layer of skin
How Severe
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scritch comes from the little sound of scratching or scraping, like a quick 'scritch' you hear when something is rubbed, and it is similar to the word scratch. So a scritch is a tiny 'mark' or light scratch.