Hermaphrodite vs Scrat - What's the difference?
hermaphrodite | scrat |
An individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
A person or thing possessing two opposing qualities.
(nautical) A hermaphrodite brig.
Having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.
Combining two opposing qualities.
(obsolete) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:
*:Euclioas he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen , an ill sign […].
(obsolete, UK) To rake; to search.
* 1978 , A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden , Vintage International 1992, p.89
As nouns the difference between hermaphrodite and scrat
is that hermaphrodite is an individual or organism possessing ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads while scrat is a hermaphrodite.As an adjective hermaphrodite
is having gender-ambiguous sexual organs, typically including both types of gonads.As a verb scrat is
to scratch, to use one's nails or claws.hermaphrodite
English
(wikipedia hermaphrodite)Noun
(en noun)- An earthworm is a hermaphrodite .
Usage notes
* * is now the preferred term for human description. * Compare (m) and genderqueer.Synonyms
* maphrodite, morphodite, mophrodite (slang) * androgyne * gynandromorph *Derived terms
(terms derived from hermaphrodite) * false hermaphrodite * herm / * hermaphrodism * pseudohermaphroditeAdjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* androgynous * hermaphroditic * intersexSee also
* berdache, two-spirit * genderqueer ----scrat
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish .Verb
(scratt)- He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.