"Old Scratch" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an old-fashioned nickname for the Devil or a person who behaves badly. For example, "My father always warned me not to follow in the footsteps of Old Scratch."
Old Scratch, Old Nick, the Prince of Darkness: all names for the same cloven-hoofed tempter the devil.
Watch out for Old Scratch the TEMPTER in the northeast, giving us the EVIL EYE.
Let him argue with Old Scratch about whether his sins were oversampled in the final analysis of his mortal days.
Back at his desk Old Scratch tossed a metal token into a drawer, a token such as were once used in whorehouses by customers with credit.
As it does, the public mood in this country is more divided than in many years, like an old scratch that has festered into a gaping wound.
Read Emerald Fennell's top 10 villainesses Read lolantheWrites' review In Old Scratch Wood on Dartmoor, quarrelling cousins Matt and Tilda find a buried skull.
Like a waterborne Tiger Woods, Yelas is under constant pressure to perform -- and to do so in an enterprise in which plain old scratch-your-head luck has been said to play a not insignificant role.
Memory isn't an old scratched movie or a decaying magnetic tape.
I like the idea, but not the art: cinema cameras produce a different kind of reality to old, scratched newsreels, a "negotiating table" that somehow doesn't work.
For instance, a CD or DVD player can make an old scratched disc even one with holes drilled through it work as well as a pristine one.
Old scratched graffiti is visible in places.
