
Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampuminformal terms for money (n)scratcha competitor who has withdrawn from competition (n)scratch(golf) a handicap of zero strokes“a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course” Verbs
(v)rub, scratch, itchscrape or rub as if to relieve itching“Don't scratch your insect bites!” (v)cancel, call off, scratch, scrubpostpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled“Call off the engagement”,
“cancel the dinner party”,
“we had to scrub our vacation plans”,
“scratch that meeting — the chair is ill” (v)strike, scratch, expunge, exciseremove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line“Please strike this remark from the record”,
“scratch that remark” (v)scrape, scrape up, scratch, come upgather (money or other resources) together over time“She had scraped together enough money for college”,
“they scratched a meager living” (v)scratch, engrave, grave, inscribecarve, cut, or etch into a material or surface“engrave a pen”,
“engraved the trophy cup with the winner's name”,
“the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree”