scratcher
See also: Scratcher
English
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Noun
scratcher (plural scratchers)
- Someone who scratches.
- A piece of equipment used to scratch part of the body to relieve an itch.
- Hypernym: device
- Hyponyms: backscratcher, head-scratcher
- An item made of shreddable material (carpet, corrugated cardboard, etc.) designed to be scratched, usually by pet cats.
- Near-synonym: scratching post
- (gambling) A scratch card.
- (slang) A bedding place (e.g., mattress, bunk, hay bed, or bed).
- Near-synonym: pallet
- (zoology) Any rasorial bird.
- (slang) A counterfeiter.
- 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 93:
- “I’m what they used to call a scratcher,” the Ukrainian said. “Dupes, counterfeits, identification. Turn wrong names right.”
- (slang, derogatory) An unlicensed tattoo artist.
- A device for cleaning mud etc. from a wellbore.
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skʁat.ʃe/
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Verb
scratcher
- (Quebec, colloquial) to scratch, to make a scratch
- Synonym: égratigner
Conjugation
Conjugation of scratcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | scratcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | scratchant /skʁat.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | scratché /skʁat.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “scratcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012