scratとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish kratta (“to rake”). Also compare German kratzen (“to scratch”).

動詞

scrat (三人称単数 現在形 scrats, 現在分詞 scratting, 過去形および過去分詞形 scratted)

1. (obsolete) To scratch; to use one's nails or claws.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.286:

     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. (obsolete, UK) To rake; to search.
   • 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International, published 1992, page 89:

     He himself had scratted in the thin dust of evangelical tracts.

語源 2

Compare 古期英語 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.^[1]

名詞

scrat (複数形 scrats)

1. (obsolete) A hermaphrodite.
   • 1649, Thomas Johnson, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey:

     three on the right side for males , three on the left side for femals , and one in the midst for Hermophrodices or Scrats

参照

語源 3

From Middle English scrat, from 古期英語 *scrætt, from Proto-Germanic *skrattuz (“troll, forest monster”). Compare German Schratt and Old Norse skratti.

名詞

scrat (複数形 scrats)

1. (obsolete) A devil.

関連する語

• Old Scratch

アナグラム

• C-rats, CARTs, Carts, SCART, carts, crats, scart