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Definition of Backscratcher
1. Noun. Someone who is willing to trade favors or services for mutual advantage.
2. Noun. A long-handled scratcher for scratching your back.
Definition of Backscratcher
1. Noun. A long slender rod with a rake-like device on one end, sometimes in the form of a human hand, designed to let a person scratch his own back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backscratcher
Literary usage of Backscratcher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The backscratcher varies in length from 12 to 20 in., and the more elaborate ...
Like most oí the obsolete appliances of daily life, the backscratcher, ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"in the hand he had his backscratcher, at his waist a sling like that with which
David killed Goliath ; on his breast a flute, breathing wonderfully like ..."
3. Tibet & Nepal by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1905)
"... and head- and backscratcher, it is not infrequent to find that the ear-piercing
operation is accompanied by inflammation or some nasty sore or other, ..."
4. Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations by Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845)
"By their sides hang a score of strange- looking implements—a carved cup in wood,
a backscratcher, to facilitate the chase after vermin in parts where their ..."
5. Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences by Davenport Academy of Sciences (1904)
"Mueller, A. O Burmese prayer-book; Chinese backscratcher; model boat of birch
bark; historical specimens, Michigan. ..."
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