Scrat vs Scraw - What's the difference?
scrat | scraw |
(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
A sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.
A turf covering the roof of a cottage beneath the thatch.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between scrat and scraw
is that scrat is a hermaphrodite while scraw is a sod of grass-grown turf from the surface of a bog or from a field.As a verb scrat
is to scratch, to use one's nails or claws.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.