different between lust vs itch

English

Etymology

From Middle English lust, from Old English lust (“lust, pleasure, longing”), from Proto-Germanic *lustuz. Akin to Old Saxon, Dutch lust, Old Frisian, Old High German, German Lust, Swedish lust, Danish lyst, Icelandic lyst, Old Norse losti, Gothic ???????????????????????? (lustus), and perhaps to Sanskrit ??? (la?), ???? (la?ati, “to desire”) and Albanian lushë (“bitch, savage dog, promiscuous woman”), or to English loose. Confer list (“to please”), listless.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

lust (countable and uncountable, plural lusts)

1. A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.

2. (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
   • 1608/1611, Joseph Hall, Epistles

     My lust to devotion is little.

3. (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
   • c. 1521, John Skelton, “Speke Parott”:

     Pompe, pryde, honour, ryches & worldly lu?t
     Parrot ?ayth playnly, ?hall tourne all to du?t

4. (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power

Synonyms

• (strong desire): See also Thesaurus:craving or Thesaurus:lust
• (general want or longing): See also Thesaurus:desire
• (delightful cause of joy): See also Thesaurus:pleasure
• (active power): lustihood, potency, vigour, virility

Derived terms

Related terms

• wanderlust

Translations

Verb

lust (third-person singular simple present lusts, present participle lusting, simple past and past participle lusted)

1. (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.

Translations

Anagrams

• LUTs, UTSL, slut, ults

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?st/
• Hyphenation: lust
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lust, from Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun

lust m (plural lusten, diminutive lustje n)

1. lust, desire (especially sexual, but also more generally)
2. object of desire
3. pleasure, joy

   Het was een lust om naar hem te kijken en te luisteren.

   It was a pleasure watching and listening to him.

4. benefit, advantage

Related terms

• bloedlust
• eetlust
• lusteloos
• lusthof
• lustig
• lustobject
• lustmoord
• lustoord
• lustprieel
• lusttuin
• moordlust
• roemlust
• wellust

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

lust

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of lusten
2. imperative of lusten

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German lust. Cognate to German Lust and Finnish lusti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lus?t/

Noun

lust (genitive lusti, partitive lusti)

1. pleasure, fun, joy, lust (non-sexual)

   Nad teevad seda niisama lusti pärast.

   They're doing it just for fun.

Declension

Descendants

• ? Ingrian: lusti (“beautiful, funny”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Noun

lust m or f

1. enjoyment, pleasure
2. lust, desire
3. hunger, desire to eat

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• onlust

Descendants

• Dutch: lust

Further reading

• “lust”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “lust (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lust/

Noun

lust m

1. desire, pleasure, appetite, lust

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: lust
  • English: lust

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse losti (late Old Norse lyst), from Middle Low German lust lüst, lyst, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-Germanic *lustuz.

Pronunciation

Noun

lust c

1. (uncountable) lust (a mood of desire), joy, a keen interest

2. a desire (for something specific)

Declension

Related terms

• förlusta
• förlustelse
• läslust
• lusta
• lustgas
• lusthus
• lustig
• lustjakt
• lustresa
• lustspel
• lysten
• lystnad
• söklust

Anagrams

• luts, slut

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

lust c (plural lusten)

1. desire, appetite
2. lust, sexual desire

Derived terms

• ytlust

Further reading

• “lust”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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)

1. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch.
2. 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)

1. (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
2. (intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.

3. (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.

4. (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.

Derived terms

• make one's teeth itch

Translations

Anagrams

• chit, tich