Definitions for itches

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itches itch

Spelling: [ich]

IPA: /ɪtʃ/

Itches is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in itches (cehist).

Definitions for itches

noun

1. the sensation of itching.
2. an uneasy or restless desire or longing:
3. a contagious disease caused by the itch mite, which burrows into the skin (usually preceded by the).

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to have an itch:
2. Informal. to scratch (a part that itches):
3. to annoy; vex; irritate:

verb (used without object)

1. to have or feel a peculiar tingling or uneasy irritation of the skin that causes a desire to scratch the part affected:
2. to cause such a feeling:
3. Informal. to scratch a part that itches.
4. to have a desire to do or get something:

Origin of itches

before 900; (v.) Middle English (y)icchen, Old English gicc(e)an; akin to German jucken, Dutch jeuken; (noun) Middle English (y)icche, Old English gicce, derivative of the v.

Examples for itches

Wit, lad, is a catching thing, like the itch or the sweating sickness.

I always had an itch for newspaper work, and I went on a New York paper.

Inside the itch, extreme weather—both flooding and drought—seem to be intensifying.

That seems to be the modus operandi as The League moves closer to the seven-year itch.

They will always have the itch to be going, whether the going is good or not.

But he did not shoot, though one could see how his fingers must itch for the feel of the trigger.

There was nothing under heaven their fingers did not itch to change.

This is the safest and best application for the itch, and will have no disagreeable smell, if made in the following manner.

LIBRA Your palms may itch, signaling a cash infusion is on the horizon.

“You try to always scratch where the itch is,” Huckabee said about his campaigning and rhetoric in the 2008 primary.