Word.ws English Dictionary

scratting

scratting is the present participle and gerund of scrat.

Meaning of scrat

Verb

scrat (third-person singular simple present scrats, present participle scratting, simple past and past participle scratted)

  1. (obsolete) To scratch or scrape.
    • 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 […]., New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286
  2. (UK, obsolete) To rake; to search.
    • He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International, published 1992, page 89

See all 4 meanings of scrat

Questions about scratting

What is scratting the present participle and gerund of?
Scratting is the present participle and gerund of scrat.

Words near scratting in the dictionary

  1. scratchy
  2. scrats
  3. scratted
  4. scratter
  5. scratters
  6. scratting
  7. scrattle
  8. scrattled
  9. scrattles
  10. scrattling
  11. scratty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scratting (page history and authors); scrat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scratting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scratting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.