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itch
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English icche, ?icche, from Old English ?i??e (“an itch”), from Proto-Germanic *jukj? (“an itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“an itch, itchiness”), Dutch jeuk (“an itch”), German jucken.
Noun
itch (plural itches)
- A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
- A constant teasing desire or want.
Synonyms
- yuck, yuik, yeuk (all in Scotland)
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English icchen, ?icchen, from Old English ?i??an, ?y??an (“to itch”), from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan (“to itch”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots yeuk (“to itch”), West Frisian jûkje (“to itch”), Dutch jeuken (“to itch”), Low German jocken (“to itch”), German jucken (“to itch”).
Verb
itch (third-person singular simple present itches, present participle itching, simple past and past participle itched)
- (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
- (intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
- (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
- 2001, India Knight, My Life on a Plate (page 102)
- My head is suddenly itching me like mad.
- 2001, India Knight, My Life on a Plate (page 102)
- (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.
- 2002, M D Huddleston, Missing Paige:
- "What makes you suspect him?" Max asked as he itched his neck.
- 2002 January 4, "Cyd" (username), Itching, in alt.support.mult-sclerosis, Usenet:
- I have to take both shoes and socks off! If I go bare foot I'm ok! I also get itching on my r/palm of my hand. I itch it so much that it's raw!
- 2003 November 21, "Jim Patterson" (username), Behavior Therapy for Itchy Clothes?, in alt.support.ocd, Usenet:
- Basically I go through a half hour of trying to figure out of it is an fake OCD itch or a regular itch before I itch it (if I determine it's a "fake" itch, then I try not to itch it).
- 2003, Ray Emerson, The Riddle of Cthulhu:
- Ulysses thumped his side and itched his back side, then slipped into his car.
- 2004, Philip Smucker, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and the Media on Terror's Trail:
- But when we asked more about the famous man whose specter still commanded the heights, the guard just sneered at me, pointed his gun back toward the road with one hand, and itched his chin with the other.
- 2002, M D Huddleston, Missing Paige:
Derived terms
- make one's teeth itch
Translations
Anagrams
- chit, tich
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liking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?k??/
- Rhymes: -a?k??
Etymology 1
From Middle English likinge, likinde, likende, likande, licande, from Old English l?ciende, l?ci?ende, from Proto-Germanic *l?k?ndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *l?k?n?, equivalent to like +? -ing.
Verb
liking
- present participle of like
Etymology 2
From Middle English likinge, from Old English l?cung (“pleasing; pleasure; gratification; liking”), equivalent to like +? -ing.
Noun
liking (countable and uncountable, plural likings)
- A like; a predilection.
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- The likings and dislikings of society, or of some powerful portion of it, are thus the main thing which has practically determined the rules laid down for general observance, under the penalties of law or opinion.
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- (archaic) Approval.
- goods bought on liking
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:predilection
Derived terms
- for one's liking
- to one's liking
- take a liking to
Translations
Sambali
Noun
likíng
- side
liking From the web:
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