Scrat
Origin 1
Middle English scratten. Origin uncertain; apparently related to Swedish kratta ("to rake").
Full definition of scrat
Verb
- (obsolete) To scratch, to use one's nails or claws.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review 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 ....
- (obsolete) To rake; to search.
Origin 2
Compare Anglo-Saxon scritta an hermaphrodite, Irish scrut a scrub, a low, mean person.