Scratchy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ætʃi

Full definition of scratchy

Adjective

1. Characterized by scratches.
• 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography Chapter 4, An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
2. Annoying, irritating, itchy.
3. (informal, of an analogue radio transmission) Noisy, lossy; marred by white noise or static as a result of poor or low signal, interference or unfavourable atmospheric conditions.
   The FM station two hundred miles away was receivable, but the audio was too scratchy to positively identify.