scritches

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
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

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