scratter
Scratter is a British regional slang term — primarily Northern English — used as a derogatory label for someone perceived as a chav: typically someone associated with low-income culture, cheap branded clothing, antisocial behaviour, and a lack of refinement.
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Scratter is a British regional slang term — primarily Northern English — used as a derogatory label for someone perceived as a chav: typically someone associated with low-income culture, cheap branded clothing, antisocial behaviour, and a lack of refinement. Like 'chav' itself, the word is class-loaded and often used dismissively or as an insult. Its use is informal and its connotation is almost entirely negative. The term is part of a broader family of regional British slang words used to demean people along class lines.
The estate had a reputation, but he thought calling everyone there a scratter was lazy and unfair.
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(UK, regional, derogatory) A chav.
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- scratty68%
British colloquial for someone or something that looks scruffy, unkempt, or a bit rough around the edges — thin and ragged rather than deliberately dishevelled. You might describe a scratty flat, a scratty outfit, or a scratty-looking stranger. It implies not quite dirty but definitely not put-together, with a slight edge of sympathy. Common in northern England and well understood across the UK.
- scrattle65%
(intransitive, UK, dialect) To scuttle.
- scratty64%
(colloquial, chiefly, UK) Thin, meagre; unkempt.
- scrote63%
(chiefly, UK, slang, derogatory) A worthless or contemptible person; a gobshite or toerag.