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Scray vs Scrat - What's the difference?

scray | scrat |

As nouns the difference between scray and scrat

is that scray is a tern; the sea swallow while scrat is (obsolete) a hermaphrodite.

As a verb scrat is

(obsolete) to scratch, to use one's nails or claws.

scray

English

Alternative forms

* scraye

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tern; the sea swallow.
    • (Webster 1913)

    scrat

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish .

    Verb

    (scratt)
  • (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
    • He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.

    Etymology 2

    Compare Anglo-Saxon (scritta) an hermaphrodite, Irish (scrut) a scrub, a low, mean person.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.
    • (Skinner)
    (Webster 1913)

    Related terms

    * Old Scratch

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