scratching
/ˈskɹæt͡ʃɪŋ/ nom B1- The act or sound of something being scratched. · We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
- A pork scratching.
- Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
Pluriel scratchings
Dans la bibliothèque
A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.
“We’d best put it back on the rug where we found it,” said the sergeant, scratching his puzzled head in his perplexity.
Kill.” A scuffling mass of monkeys, biting, scratching, tearing, and pulling, closed over Bagheera, while five or six laid hold of Mowgli, dragged him up the wall of the summerhouse and pushed him through the hole of the broken dome.
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself “This is Bill,” she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next.
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