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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

arañazo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /a.ɾaˈɲa.θo/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Scrat/skræt/
nounverbCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El gato le dejó un pequeño arañazo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A thin, scrawny person or animal, or a scratch.

    "He looked like a ragged scrat after wandering through the thorny brush."
As verb
  1. 1

    To scratch or scrawl hurriedly.

    "She began to scrat notes onto the margin of her manuscript."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived as a regional or dialectal variant of 'scratch' or 'scrat', originating from Middle English roots related to Old Norse 'skrattadr' or Germanic terms denoting a thin, lean person or animal, and popularized in modern culture by the fictional saber-toothed squirrel character from the Ice Age film franchise.

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