ˈscritch-scratch
[Reduplicated formation on scratch.]
Continual scratching. Hence scritch-scratching vbl. n.
| 1842 Blackw. Mag. LI. 320 One could not work; he never could whilst men were making such a scritch-scratch with their pens. 1881 E. Coxon Basil Plant I. 67 Do leave that confounded scritch-scratching alone this afternoon. 1977 Time 14 Feb. 33/2 At any hour of the day or night one can hear the scritch-scratch of individual snow shovels. |