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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-booty scratcher.wav|a=Southern England}}

===Noun===
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# {{lb|en|North America|slang|derogatory|ethnic slur}} An [[African]] person.
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Water in a Broken Glass. A novel|year=1999|page=121|isbn=9780964763579|publisher= La Caille Nous Pub. / Cool Water Publishing House LLC|author=Odessa Rose|passage=[…] What in the world is an African '''booty scratcher'''?” “Something my sister used to call me. I didn’t know what an African '''booty scratcher''' was and I still don’t, but I knew it was something negative things around me had taught me that any and everything referencing Africa  had dubious admirable qualities. So what I inevitably sculpted one day were these blue-black, big-lipped, wide nosed, monkey-looking African figures with enormous buttocks, swinging naked from a tree, and landing on the jungle floor to scratch theirs or somebody else’s behinds.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2004|title=Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop|author=Imani Perry|page=17|isbn=9780822386155|publisher=Duke University Press|pageurl=https://www.google.de/books/edition/Prophets_of_the_Hood/KkCDDXFPgqcC?&gbpv=1&dq=Booty+Scratcher&pg=PA17&printsec=frontcover|passage=At elite universities, Caribbean students have reportedly excluded African Americans from organizations and study groups, claiming, as part of their immigration narratives, that the latter group lacks the appropriate work ethic to participate. Young Caribbean people learn from their parents the stories of exploitation at the hands of African Americans, or other Caribbean people who had been here longer, when they newly arrived in the United States, and those stories become warning narratives. Most black Americans have minimal contact with black immigrants and derive their information about them from imperialistic and Euro-centric media constructions of third-world, black-populated countries. Hence, immigrated blacks are taunted by them with racist terms like “African '''booty scratcher'''” or references to {{small caps|AIDS}}.}}