Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An implement for scratching the back, generally made of bone or ivory, in the form of a small hand fixed to a long slender handle.
- noun A toy of wood or bone having a thin tongue which presses upon a toothed wheel, on the principle of a watchman's rattle: when it is rubbed on the back of a person, it produces a sound like the tearing of cloth.
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Examples
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This blog curates all the odd junk lying around parents 'homes, from an impressive back-scratcher collection to the creepiest dog-head hanger you've ever seen (and if you've seen more than one, we pity you).
Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010
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This blog curates all the odd junk lying around parents 'homes, from an impressive back-scratcher collection to the creepiest dog-head hanger you've ever seen (and if you've seen more than one, we pity you).
Crap At My Parents' House: An Homage To Mom & Dad's Terrifying Belongings (PHOTOS) 2010
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The old-young man with the portly build was a back-scratcher with an itch of his own.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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The old-young man with the portly build was a back-scratcher with an itch of his own.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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On a writing-table lay a volume of Shakespeare, and, on an occasional table, a carved ivory back-scratcher.
Dead Souls 1842
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Other items up for sale range from a Victorian back-scratcher to bedposts, bookcases and candelabras.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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I've even found that both of our pets love it as a back-scratcher, which is the equivalent of crack to them.
Branded in the 80s! 2010
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Your drug dealer, your psychic, your back-scratcher.
Macleans.ca 2009
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I've even found that both of our pets love it as a back-scratcher, which is the equivalent of crack to them.
Branded in the 80s! 2009
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I've even found that both of our pets love it as a back-scratcher, which is the equivalent of crack to them.
Branded in the 80s! 2009
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