scritch
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
scritch (plural scritches)
- (obsolete) a screech
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch:
- For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
- 1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A thrush.
Verb
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Etymology 2
Variant of scratch.
Verb
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- To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
- To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.
- 2001, Miriam Moss, Scritch Scratch, →ISBN:
- One day a tiny insect, no bigger than a freckle, climbs into Miss Calypso's classroom. Nobody notices until Polly scritches, Joshua scratches and soon the whole class is scritching and scratching
- 2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55:
- There once was a cat with a terrible itch. She had a flea in her fur which was making her twitch. She scratched herself here and she scritched herself there
- 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:
- And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?
Noun
scritch (plural scritches)
- A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
- The act of scratching an itch.
- 2010, Marguerite Floyd, The Parrot Reckonings, →ISBN:
- Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her.
- 2015, Maisey Yates, Part Time Cowboy, →ISBN:
- “It really does have to work out,” she said, setting Toby's carrier up on the kitchen table. “Because otherwise you'll be reduced to standing on a street corner and offering kitty head scritches for money. And none of us want to see you stoop that low."
- 2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79:
- And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?