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Itching

//ˈɪt͡ʃɪŋ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A sensation that itches.

    "Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead."

  2. 2
    an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of itch form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English icchynge, ichynge, ycchenge, yecchyng, ʒicchunge (also unassibilated as ʒykynge), equivalent to itch + -ing.

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