1 (of clothes or fabric) rough and unpleasant to the touch:
This sweater is too scratchy. * a scratchy blanket
2 (of a record, voice, etc.) making a rough, unpleasant sound like sth being scratched across a surface:
a scratchy recording of Mario Lanza * a scratchy pen
3 (of writing or drawings) done without care:
She had scrawled me a note in her familiar scratchy handwriting.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scratchy is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scratchy a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scratchy is tagged as adjective.
Does scratchy appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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