Scritch

//skɹɪt͡ʃ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    a screech obsolete

    "Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?"

  2. 2
    A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
  3. 3
    A thrush. UK, dialectal, obsolete
  4. 4
    The act of scratching an itch.
  5. 5
    The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.

    "Sugar demands scritches alternating with sinking her beak into my fingers because I'm not doing it to suit her."

Verb
  1. 1
    To screech. obsolete
  2. 2
    To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
  3. 3
    To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.

    "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"

  4. 4
    To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.

    "And they almost always gave good scritches, so they couldn't be bad people, could they? Did bad people scritch right?"

Example

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"Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?"

Etymology

Variant of scratch.

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