scratching
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English[edit]
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scratching
Noun[edit]
scratching (plural scratchings)
- The act or sound of something being scratched.
- We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 236:
- It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
- A pork scratching.
- 2010, Monique Roffey, Sun Dog:
- 'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
- Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
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