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scritch¹

  • /skɹɪt͡ʃ/

Rhymes with -ɪtʃ

noun scritches

  1. obsolete a screech Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?
  2. UK, dialectal, obsolete A thrush.

verb scritches · scritching · scritched

  1. obsolete To screech.

scritch²

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Variant of scratch.

verb scritches · scritching · 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 scratching
  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?

noun 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.

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@misc{scritch_2026,
  title = {scritch},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scritch},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}