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Definition of Scritches
1. scritch [v] - See also: scritch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scritches
Literary usage of Scritches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tennyson, as a Student and Poet of Nature by Joseph Norman Lockyer, Winifred Lucas Lockyer (1910)
"The very sudden and unmusical sounds of the jay seem aptly described as scritches :—
And thro' damp holts new-flush'd with may, Ring sudden scritches of the ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1899)
"It is in March that we suddenly hear in the copse, which was silent twenty-four
hours before save for the crow of the pheasant or "sudden scritches of the ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1899)
"It is in March that we suddenly hear in the copse, which was silent twenty-four
hours before save for the crow of the pheasant or "sudden scritches of the ..."
4. Modern Studies by Oliver Elton (1907)
"... the four-handed mole is heard scraping in the darkness, the sudden laughters
of the jay (or the ' scritches ', for the poet wavered delicately between ..."
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