Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A scratching motion.
- noun A light sound made by scratching.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrill cry; a screech.
- To screech; shriek.
- noun A thrush. See
screech , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A screech.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete a
screech - verb obsolete To
screech . - verb To
scratch anitch .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So I dragged my heel from the water's edge over the sand-bar to the beach, making a thin scritch of a line.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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So I dragged my heel from the water's edge over the sand-bar to the beach, making a thin scritch of a line.
A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008
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Toby and I looked at each other, the house around us silent except for the gentle scritch of Father sawing downstairs in his workshop.
Bone Hinge 2010
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Toby and I looked at each other, the house around us silent except for the gentle scritch of Father sawing downstairs in his workshop.
Bone Hinge 2010
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Toby and I looked at each other, the house around us silent except for the gentle scritch of Father sawing downstairs in his workshop.
Bone Hinge 2010
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Amid the drowning hum in my ears I can hear the scritch of metal on wood.
Insatiable DJ Young 2011
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Might even be less annoying than my cats using my fingers while typing to scritch themselves on.
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Put dat sawftee swettur ina bawx ai can hied in sum liek Shroediggur/wutebbur kitteh. scritch awn dat cradbord bawx nd putz da shreddeez awl obur da flor.
I like tu keep my opshuns open - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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As always, give those good kitties of yours a good scritch from me, and a rub of the forehead, plud s polite sniff, from each of the Kracker cats.
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Might even be less annoying than my cats using my fingers while typing to scritch themselves on.
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