scrat

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hermaphrodite. obsolete
    — three on the right side for males , three on the left side for femals , and one in the midst for Hermophrodices or Scrats
  2. A devil. obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To scratch; to use one's nails or claws. obsolete
    — Euclio […] as he went from home, seeing a crow scrat upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for malum omen, an ill sign […].
  2. To rake; to search. UK,obsolete
    — He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.

词形变化

scrats present,singular,third-person scratting participle,present scratted participle,past scratted past scrats plural scrats plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish kratta (“to rake”). Also compare German kratzen (“to scratch”).
词源 2
Compare Old English scritta (“a hermaphrodite”), which had an earlier sense of "effeminate person, castrated man," presumably related to sċieran (“to cut”). Liberman notes that Germanic glossators, not familiar with Ovid, did not know exactly how to translate Latin hermaphroditus and instead matched it with more native words related to sexual deficiencies.
词源 3
From Middle English scrat, from Old English *scrætt, from Proto-Germanic *skrattuz (“troll, forest monster”). Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti.
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