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Sam Scratch
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English
Etymology
See Old Scratch.
Proper noun
- (chiefly Midland US, Southern US) The Devil.
- Synonyms: Old Nick, Old Serpent; see also Thesaurus:Satan
- 1904, Jack London, The Faith of Men:
- I tell you-alls the whole camp hits up the Yukon for Dawson jes' like Sam Scratch was after them,—wimmen, children, babes in arms, the whole shebang.
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