Old Scratch

name

Etymology

Probably an alteration of scrat, from Middle English scrat, skratt, scratte, ultimately from Old Norse skratti (“a type of demon”).

  1. derived from skratti
  2. derived from scrat

Definitions

  1. The Devil.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Old Scratch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA