Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrattle
Literary usage of Scrattle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatists of To-day: Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips by Edward Everett Hale (1905)
"... scrattle, a coarse and licentious creature who strangely smokes a pipe. ...
if she chooses, and jeers at the wood-scrattle and his goatish legs. ..."
2. Dramatists of To-day: Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips by Edward Everett Hale (1911)
"... scrattle, a coarse and licentious creature who strangely smokes a pipe. ...
if she chooses, and jeers at the wood-scrattle and his goatish legs. ..."
3. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"... and then wonder as the scratching run through."—Adam Bede, c. 18. scrattle,
va and n., freq. of 'scratch' or 'scrat,'and used in the same senses. ..."
4. The Cheshire Sheaf ...: Being Local Gleanings, Historical and Antiquarian by Francis Sanders, William Fergusson Irvine, J. Brownbill (1880)
"Watching a man falling a tree, and observing it was a tough one, he said, " Те
seen, yome in the spurns, and the chips wonna bout (bolt)." " scrattle ..."
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