itch
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[edit] Etymology 1
Old English ġyċċe.
[edit] Noun
Wikipedia itch (plural itches)
- A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
- A desire or want.
- 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
- ... it left, however, a bee at his ear and an itch to transfer the buzzer's attentions and tease his darling; for she had betrayed herself as right good game.
- 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage:
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a sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch
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a desire
[edit] Etymology 2
Old English ġiċċan.
[edit] Verb
itch (third-person singular simple present itches, present participle itching, simple past and past participle itched)
- (intransitive) To feel the need to scratch.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
- Capulet: ... Speak not, reply not, do not answer me; / My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest / That God had lent us but this only child; / But now I see this one is one too much, / And that we have a curse in having her: / Out on her, hilding!
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
- (intransitive) To want or desire.
- He started learning to drive and he has been itching for opportunities to practice ever since.
- (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
- (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
- 2002: M D Huddleston, Missing Paige
- "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
- 2003: Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu
- Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
- 2004: Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail
- But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.
- 2002: M D Huddleston, Missing Paige
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to feel the need to scratch
to want or desire
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