scratcher
See also: Scratcher
English
Noun
scratcher (plural scratchers)
- Someone who scratches.
- A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
- (lottery) A scratch card.
- A bed. (etymology: rhyming slang, rhymes with "scratch your head") usage references: )
- (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
- (slang) A counterfeiter.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for scratcher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Derived terms
- back scratcher/back-scratcher
- head scratcher/head-scratcher
- butt scratcher/butt-scratcher
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʁat.ʃe/
Conjugation
Conjugation of scratcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | scratchant /skʁat.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | scratché /skʁat.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | scratcher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | scratchant /skʁat.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scratche /skʁatʃ/ |
scratches /skʁatʃ/ |
scratche /skʁatʃ/ |
scratchons /skʁat.ʃɔ̃/ |
scratchez /skʁat.ʃe/ |
scratchent /skʁatʃ/ |
| imperfect | scratchais /skʁat.ʃɛ/ |
scratchais /skʁat.ʃɛ/ |
scratchait /skʁat.ʃɛ/ |
scratchions /skʁat.ʃjɔ̃/ |
scratchiez /skʁat.ʃje/ |
scratchaient /skʁat.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | scratchai /skʁat.ʃe/ |
scratchas /skʁat.ʃa/ |
scratcha /skʁat.ʃa/ |
scratchâmes /skʁat.ʃam/ |
scratchâtes /skʁat.ʃat/ |
scratchèrent /skʁat.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | scratcherai /skʁat.ʃə.ʁe/ |
scratcheras /skʁat.ʃə.ʁa/ |
scratchera /skʁat.ʃə.ʁa/ |
scratcherons /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
scratcherez /skʁat.ʃə.ʁe/ |
scratcheront /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | scratcherais /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
scratcherais /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
scratcherait /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
scratcherions /skʁat.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scratcheriez /skʁat.ʃə.ʁje/ |
scratcheraient /skʁat.ʃə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scratche /skʁatʃ/ |
scratches /skʁatʃ/ |
scratche /skʁatʃ/ |
scratchions /skʁat.ʃjɔ̃/ |
scratchiez /skʁat.ʃje/ |
scratchent /skʁatʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | scratchasse /skʁat.ʃas/ |
scratchasses /skʁat.ʃas/ |
scratchât /skʁat.ʃa/ |
scratchassions /skʁat.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
scratchassiez /skʁat.ʃa.sje/ |
scratchassent /skʁat.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | scratche /skʁatʃ/ |
— | scratchons /skʁat.ʃɔ̃/ |
scratchez /skʁat.ʃe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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