scratch:

1. Slang term for the vagina , possibly derived from the urge to scratch a (sexual) itch . See vagina for synonyms.

2. A woman as sex-object . The day porter to Frank Sinatra in The First Deadly Sin (1980): ' I don't know what kind of scratch he brings here at night .'

3. Dated slang for money .

See Also: abrasion, amychesis, amychophobia, blood sports, bondage and torture, cat-fighting, cock and ball torture, divine scar, everlasting wound, hatch, hatchway, itcher, mark of the beast, nick, one's person, rake, S & M, scratch, scrotcher, seven year itch, slit, snatch

Quotes Containing scratch:
Ellis (Dan Aykroyd) and Mac (Gene Hackman) in Loose Cannons (1990): - Ellis Fielding: '' S & M club? Like sadism and masochism?'' - MacArthur Stern: ''Yeah, you know , you scratch my back , I''ll scratch yours, only real hard.''
Lawrence Paros. The Erotic Tongue (1984): 'Nobody really knows where the hole came from, though Captain Grose, the roguish eighteenth- century lexicographer, had his own ideas about it . His version opens with an angel who had been employed in forming women, forgetting to cut off their parts-of-generation . Enter Lucifer who took it upon himself to set matters right. Taking a somewhat direct approach to the problem, he placed himself in a sawpit with a scythe fixed to a stick in his hand and directed the women to straddle the pit . He then gave each the mark-of-the-beast (c. 1715). The pit being too deep for the length of his instrument , tall women received only a moderate scratch , but little women, because their legs were so short and more within his reach, received a somewhat larger cut . The long and the short of it? They both went home with an everlasting-wound (17th C), known in some quarters as the divine-scar (18th C). The Devil, henceforth, was to be known as Old Nick or Ole Scratch; and the c**t [cunt, as slit (17th-20th C), nick , and gash (both 16th-20thC).'

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