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scritch

/skɹɪt͡ʃ/

scritch noun: a screech.

Noun (1)

scritch (plural scritches)

  1. (obsolete) a screech
    • Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch:
      For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A thrush.

Verb (1)

scritch (third-person singular simple present scritches, present participle scritching, simple past and past participle scritched)

  1. (obsolete) To screech.

Verb (2)

scritch (third-person singular simple present scritches, present participle scritching, simple past and past participle scritched)

  1. To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
  2. 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 scratching2001, Miriam Moss, Scritch Scratch, →ISBN
    • 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 there2004, The Hutchinson Book of Cat Tales, →ISBN, page 55
  3. 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?2015 -, L. A. Kornetsky, Clawed: A Gin & Tonic Mystery, →ISBN, page 79

Noun (2)

scritch (plural scritches)

  1. A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.
  2. The act of scratching an itch.
  3. 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.2010, Marguerite Floyd, The Parrot Reckonings, →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, Maisey Yates, Part Time Cowboy, →ISBN

Forms of scritch

Noun
pluralscritches
Verb
third-person singular presentscritches
present participlescritching
past participlescritched
pastscritched

Origin of scritch

Variant of scratch.

Words that rhyme with scritch

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Questions about scritch

What does scritch mean?
Scritch means a screech.
What part of speech is scritch?
Scritch can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce scritch?
Scritch is pronounced /skɹɪt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of scritch?
The plural of scritch is scritches.

Words near scritch in the dictionary

  1. scriptwise
  2. scriptwriter
  3. scriptwriters
  4. scriptwriting
  5. scripty
  6. scritch
  7. scritched
  8. scritches
  9. scritching
  10. scritchings
  11. scritchy

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