Scratchy

Definition: Scratchy

Scratchy

Adjective

1. Causing abrasion.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "scratchy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Synonym: Scratchy

Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land, we're just as concerned with violence as you are. That's why we're always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Scratchy violins, screechy piccolos, nauseating trumpets, et cetera, et cetera? (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.; writing credit: Dr. Seuss;)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bony Sweaty Greasy Scratchy Flaky Body Science (reference)

• Simpsons Pop Out People: Itchy and Scratchy Land (Pop Out People) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Best of The Simpsons, Vol. 6 - Bart the Daredevil /Itchy, Scratchy and Marge (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Itchy & Scratchy [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

• Scratchy Marimba (reference)

• That Scratchy Guitar From Memphis (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Itchy & Scratchy (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

Sneezing, scratchy throat, runny nose � everyone knows the first signs of a cold, probably the most common illness known. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "scratchy": scratchy throat. Additional references.

Albanian

sa këmbët e pulës, që gërvisht, kërnues, i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, grim, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجز بعجلة (hasty), ‏محدث صريرا, ‏مشطب, ‏مشخبط, ‏عنيد (adamant, asinine, contrary, coriaceous, die hard, dogged, dour, fractious, hardheaded, headstrong, heady, implacable, incorrigible, inelastic, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, inveterate, irreconcilable, mulish, nagging, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ornery, peevish, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, piggish, pigheaded, refractory, rigid, scabrous, self willed, stiff, stiff necked, stout, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, thwart, uncompromising, unruly, unwilling, unyielding, wilful, willful, wrongheaded), ‏صوت أبح, ‏خشن (boorish, bristly, coarse, crude, gross, gruff, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, jagged, mannerless, plebeian, rasping, raucous, rough, roughen, rowdy, rude, rugged, rustic, sand, scabrous, stiff, surly, tough, toughen, uncivil, uncouth, vulgar). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скърцащ (creaky, grinding, squeaky), хаплив (acerb, acerbic, acidulous, caustic, mordant, peppery, poignant, pungent, severe, shrewd, tart), надраскан, зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, evil, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, sinister, snaky, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), лошо нарисуван (dauby, out of drawing), лошо написан, бодлив (barbed, briery, bur, prickly, scrubby, spiny, thistly), причиняващ сърбеж, дращещ. (various references)

Czech

naškrábaný. (various references)

Farsi 

خراش دار. (various references)

French

rayé, rêche, qui grince, en pattes de mouche, éraillé. (various references)

German

kratzig (itchy, prickly, rasping). (various references)

Greek 

κνησμώδησ (itchy, prurient). (various references)

Hebrew 

עשוי כלאחר י�". (various references)

Hungarian

vakaró (scraper), viszkető (prickly, tingling, tingly), vakaródzó, kaparó (scraper), felületes (cursory, desultory, flighty, frivolous, futile, negligent, perfunctory, sketchy, skin deep, slipshod, sloppy, smattering, sophomoric, superficial), összekapkodott. (various references)

Italian

ruvido (aspero, coarse, crabbed, harsh, rough, rugged, scabrous, scraggy, shaggy), graffiato, che raschia. (various references)

Manx

screebagh (abrasive, fricative, frictional, scraping, scrapy), scrabagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

atchyscray

Portuguese

rugoso (furry, gnarled, gnarly, hackmatack, joggly, lumpy, ridged, ridgy, rough, rugged, rugous, scabrous, scraggy, scrawny, wrinkly), que arranha ou range, irregular (atypical, bumpy, catchy, crenelated, disorderly, erratic, fitful, inequable, informal, inordinate, irregular, irregular heartbeat, jagged, jaggy, jerky, joggly, jolty, knockabout, laceration, lawless, occasionalism, ragged, rough, rugged, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven, wayward), desigual (different, discrown, disparate, hackly, incommensurate, inequable, joggly, lacerated, lopsided, one sided, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, shifting, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven), áspero (abrupt, acerb, aspero, astringent, bluff, coarse, cornered, gruff, hackly, hard, harsh, his, hoarsen, horrent, inclinable, jarring, joggly, lacerated, poignant, ragged, raucous, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, rusty, scabrous, scraggy, scrawny, seamy, severe, tart). (various references)

Romanian

neomogen, care zgârie, amestecat (amalgamate, combined, divers, involved, medley, miscellaneous, mixed, mobbish, motley, promiscuous, so so, sundry, varied, various). (various references)

Russian 

царапающий, грубый (bad, barbaric, barbarous, bearish, beastly, bestial, blunt, boeotian, boor, boorish, brusque, brutal, brute, brute-force, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, common, crass, crude, curmudgeonly, currish, fresh, fulsome, gross, gross ear, gruff, hard bitten, hardhanded, harsh, heathenish, homespun, horny, ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, jazz, larrikin, loutish, low down, low-lived, rank, raucous, raw, rawhide, ribald, robust, rough, rough and ready, rude, scurrilous, uncivil, uncultivated, unfinished, unhewn, unmannerly, vulgar, woolly), небрежный (careless, casual, devil-may-care, harum scarum, heedless, inadvertent, inexact, lax, loose, loose translation, neglectful, negligent, nonchalant, perfunctory, ragged, remiss, slipshod, sloppy, unheeding, unkempt), плохо подобранный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

škripav (creaky, grate, rasping, scrannel, squeaky), škrabav. (various references)

Spanish

que raspea, que pica, garabatoso, chirriante, arañado (scraping, scuff mark). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งทำให้คันหรือระคายเคือง. (various references)

Turkish

kargacık burgacık (crabbed, crooked, twisted), kaşındıran (irritating, itching, stinging), kaşınan (itching, itchy), gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch), gıcırdayan (creaking, gnashing, grating, strident), eğri büğrü (crooked, gnarled, screwed, skew, tortuous, twisted, uneven), derme çatma (crazy, hastily put up, jerry built, patchy, rambling, scrappy, scratch), cızırtılı (sizzling, squeaky, stray, wheezy), üstünkörü (casual, casually, cursory, glib, loose, perfunctory, shallow, sketchy, skin deep, slight, superficial, trifling). (various references)

Ukranian 

скрипучий (creaking, creaky, grating, rasping, squeaky, strident), грубий (abrupt, artless, barbaresque, barbaric, base, bearish, boarish, broad, brusque, brute, caddish, chuffy, churlish, clownish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, crude, gross, hard boiled, homely, ill bred, knockabout, offhand, plebeian, primitive, ribald, rough, rough spoken, rude, shaggy, surly, swinish, truculent, uncouth), наспіх зібраний докупи, поспіхом виконаний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nguệch ngoạc (scrawly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Scratchy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mcritchie, Scaachi, scathy, scrach, scrath, scritch, scrotty, Skarthi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: scratch, starchy.

-2 letters: catchy, charts, cratch, starch, trashy, yachts.

-3 letters: artsy, carts, catch, chars, chart, chary, chats, chays, crash, cycas, harts, hasty, ratch, rhyta, satyr, scart, scary, stray, tachs, tahrs, trash, trays, yacht.

-4 letters: achy, acts, arch, arcs, arts, arty, ashy, cars, cart, cash, cast, cats, cays, char, chat, chay, cyst, hart, hast, hats, hays, racy, rash, rath, rats, rays, ryas, scar, scat, scry, shat, shay, star, stay, tach, tahr, tars, tray, tsar.

-5 letters: act, arc, ars, art, ash, ays, car, cat, cay, cry, has, hat, hay, rah, ras, rat, ray, rya, sac, sat, say, sha, shy, sty, tar, tas, thy, try, yah, yar.

+2 letters: scratchily.

+3 letters: flycatchers, psychiatric.

+4 letters: intrapsychic, physiocratic, saccharinity, tachycardias.

+5 letters: chalcopyrites, oystercatcher, prophylactics, pyrocatechols, thalassocracy.

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