itching
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English ecchinge, ȝitchinge, ʒicchinde, ʒichande (also unassibilated as yckyng), from Old English ġiċċende (“itching”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjandi, present participle of *jukkjan (“to itch”), equivalent to itch + -ing.
Verb[edit]
itching
- present participle and gerund of itch
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English icchynge, ichynge, ycchenge, yecchyng, ʒicchunge (also unassibilated as ʒykynge), equivalent to itch + -ing.
Noun[edit]
itching (plural itchings)
- A sensation that itches.
- Synonym: pruritus (medicine)
- 1856, Forbes Winslow, The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, page 71:
- Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.
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