scratch – English noun declension

English noun forms of scratch

Noun: scratch
Singularscratch
Pluralscratches

Sample Sentences

  • I can’t believe there is a scratch in the paint already.
  • Her skin was covered with tiny scratches.
  • God forbid a shallow scratch should drive / The prince of Wales from such a field as this. [1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:]
  • The coarse file[…]makes deep scratches in the work. [1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:]
  • These nails with scratches deform my breast. [1709, Matthew Prior, Henry and Emma, line 503:]
  • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well. [1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
  • A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]. [1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • The dog sat up and had a good scratch.
  • He started a few seconds before the time and came up in speed to the scratch at the moment appointed. [1820, Reuben Percy, Sholto Percy, The Percy Anecdotes:]
  • Eventually the elephant and camel were despatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. [1901, “Gleanings”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 1, page 31:]
  • There were two scratches in race 8, which reduced the field from nine horses to seven.
  • It's just a scratch!
  • He and Bruce cooked up a script together, and Bruce flew home to raise the scratch. [2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 153:]
  • These are exemplified in the scurfy, scaly affections which appear in the bend of the knee (mallenders) and hock (sallenders) and on the lower parts of the limbs, by scratches, and by a scaly exfoliation[…]. [1887, James Law, The Farmer's Veterinary Adviser:]
  • [H]e turned to him with a dejected Face, and said ‘ – pray Sir, – could you touch up This a little?’ taking hold of his frightful scratch. [1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 26 March]
  • The handwriting in his paper is completely different when compared to his scratch on the note you gave me [2017, P. L. Hawks, I Love Paris:]

Etymology

From Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.

Verbs referencing "scratch"

French Nouns scratch, Italian Nouns scratch, Czech Nouns skreč.