(Figurative meaning). To be worried about something, especially when it involves overthinking about it.
Like a scratched CD gets stuck in one place and repeats the same sound over and over, a (metaphorically) scratched person broods on something for hours and hours, wondering and worrying too much about it.
Usually people get scratched about small matters, like that stupid thing they said to their crush and they regret. However, it's possible to get scratched about important things, for example, a final exam that went horrible.
Like a scratched CD gets stuck in one place and repeats the same sound over and over, a (metaphorically) scratched person broods on something for hours and hours, wondering and worrying too much about it.
Usually people get scratched about small matters, like that stupid thing they said to their crush and they regret. However, it's possible to get scratched about important things, for example, a final exam that went horrible.
- Hey bro, are you coming to the party tonight?
- I dunno if I should cause my ex might be there... I'm getting very scratched about it.
- C'mon...
- I dunno if I should cause my ex might be there... I'm getting very scratched about it.
- C'mon...
by The Thrower April 10, 2019
by Daddy Cuh January 19, 2025
mookyshuffler and dernis coined the term as a portmanteau of good ideas and despicable after thoughts resulting in regression to a former state.
by michael jamison August 06, 2022
by Realwords3747539 July 26, 2018
Australian idiom: to deal with a matter only in the most superficial way. Similar to American ‘Scratching the surface’, but meaning different to ‘Scratching the cervix’
by AustralianLinguist March 03, 2023
1.Reference to the philosophy of self-indulgence, whether to deny or sate.
2.Statement of self-denial.
3.A description of the compelling desire for that from which one abstains.
4. For reasons of conditioning, faith, or pride, the human chooses to deny his instinctive responses to hunger, rage, lust, grief, fear, or even happiness, but suffers temptation as a result.
2.Statement of self-denial.
3.A description of the compelling desire for that from which one abstains.
4. For reasons of conditioning, faith, or pride, the human chooses to deny his instinctive responses to hunger, rage, lust, grief, fear, or even happiness, but suffers temptation as a result.
by ad-92129 March 10, 2011
"Damn Tommy, I just came so hard I got Scratch-Dick Syndrome now."
"That's what happens when you watch hentai, Phil."
"That's what happens when you watch hentai, Phil."
by joshhastheclaphands January 16, 2020