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How to pronounce “scratching”
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Pronunciation guide for scratching
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of scratching with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree
And I was scratching my head.
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of scratch
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce scratching
Barking Up the Wrong Tree

And I was scratching my head.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “scratching”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of scratch
- [Noun]
- The act or sound of something being scratched.
- A pork scratching.
- Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
- (UK, in the plural) A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
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