scritch
verb1
Obsolete To screech.
scritch
noun/skɹɪt͡ʃ/
1
Obsolete a screech
- Perhaps it is the owlet's scritch: For what can aid the mastiff bitch ?1793, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christabel:
scritch
verbEtymology Variant of scratch.
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:
scritch
nounEtymology Variant of scratch.
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:
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- 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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